Read All About It: Climate Change Denial

Sustainability
Environmental & Science Education
Edward Hessler

Wisconsin DNR

One of our neighbors has made a change on its Department of Natural Resources website. It is now a statement written by climate change naysayers and doubters.

Natasha Geiling (Think Progress) writes about this and includes the old and the new language.

OLD Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources statement on climate change.

Earth's climate is changing. Human activities that increase heat-trapping ('greenhouse') gases are the main cause....

NEW Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources statement on climate change.

As it has done throughout the centuries, the earth is going through a change. The reasons for this change as this particular time in the earth's long history are being debated and researched by academic entities outside the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Given Wisconsin's recent political environment this is not surprising. I hope that this is not a harbinger of future purges.