Friday 29th of March 2024

the ignorant twat...

the ignorant twat

Amid the Trump administration's plan to gut the Environmental Protection Agency, cut billions in scientific research, and eliminate science advisers' role in the government, thousands of people around the world are expected to participate in marches for science today to defend the role of science and evidence-based policies.


The marches, which coincide with the annual Earth Day celebration, have sparked debate within the scientific community over whether scientists should be actively engaged in political actions. Organizers for the march say the event is nonpartisan—there is no mention of Trump on its website—but assert silence is no longer an option amid the threats posed by Trump and many of his advisers.

Mother Jones has three reporters on the scene, Pema Levy in DCJaelynn Grisso in New York, and Karen Hao in Los Angeles. For up-to-the-minute news on the marches, be sure to follow them, along with our rolling collection of updates below:

3:07 pm EST Trump weighs in on Earth Day for the second time today:

Today on Earth Day, we celebrate our beautiful forests, lakes and land. We stand committed to preserving the natural beauty of our nation.

read more:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/march-for-science-earth-day-events-thousands

 

unfortunate evolution...

unfortunate evolution...

threatened by the policies of President Trump...

WASHINGTON — Thousands of scientists and their supporters, feeling increasingly threatened by the policies of President Trump, gathered Saturday in Washington under rainy skies for what they called the March for Science, abandoning a tradition of keeping the sciences out of politics and calling on the public to stand up for scientific enterprise.

As the marchers trekked shoulder-to-shoulder toward the Capitol, the street echoed with their calls: “Save the E.P.A.” and “Save the N.I.H.” as well as their chants celebrating science, “Who run the world? Nerds,” and “If you like beer, thank yeast and scientists!” Some carried signs that showed rising oceans and polar bears in peril and faces of famous scientists like Mae Jamison, Rosalind Franklin and Marie Curie, and others touted a checklist of the diseases Americans no longer get thanks to vaccines.

Although drizzle may have washed away the words on some signs, they aimed to deliver the message that science needs the public’s support.

“Science is a very human thing,” said Ashlea Morgan, a doctoral student in neurobiology at Columbia University. “The march is allowing the public to know that this is what science is, and it’s letting our legislators know that science is vitally important.”

read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/science/march-for-science.html

no magic wand...

The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared.

Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theories” of creationism and intelligent design that some argue were encouraged by his predecessor, Benedict XVI.

Francis explained that both scientific theories were not incompatible with the existence of a creator – arguing instead that they “require it”.

“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” Francis said.

read more:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-evo...

 

Here we the smart pope trying to absorb sciences into the fold. like his predecessors did with the Roman gods. It's a neat trick to corner the market of "spirituality" and assure the survival of beliefs against the assault of evidence. It might work for some believers, but not for the already further-informed atheists. 

donald is an ignoramus...

US President Donald Trump is eight times his age and a much more experienced litigator, but nine-year-old Levi Draheim is looking forward to seeing the leader in court.

Levi lives near Melbourne Beach in central Florida and is part of a group of 21 young people suing the president over his climate policies.

"The reason that I care so much is that I basically grew up on the beach. It's like another mother, sort of, to me," Levi said.

His local beach faces the Atlantic Ocean and the flat coastal terrain is one of the areas in the United States most vulnerable to a rise in sea level.

Levi and his family believe they are already seeing the effects of climate change in the local sand dunes, which are nesting territory for sea turtles.

"It makes me really sad seeing how much dune we've lost," Levi said.

"When I went out on the beach after the hurricane, I was just crying because there was so much dune lost."

'I was shocked Trump doesn't believe in climate change'

read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-24/the-nine-year-old-suing-president-...