NASA's Inspector General On Censorship Of Climate Studies

The report of NASA's Office of the Inspector General on the clumsy attempts to censoring climate science makes for a most enjoyable read. We can laugh now that it's over, I mean. There are lots of gems among the overall finding the a small cabal of political appointees in the public affairs office tried to delay or bury new findings on climate change. Here, then are some of my favorites:

...we believe that many of these scientists (and the majority of career Public Affairs Officers interviewed) would argue that the actions of NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs -- in delaying, unduly editing, canceling, or converting to lesser media their news releases related to climate change -- were not in keeping with the mandates of the Space Act. In particular, that the Space Act required the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs to disseminate this information to the widest extent possible, but they did not.

All of the NASA climate change scientists and career civil service Public Affairs Officers who were interviewed agreed that some form of political vetting or censorship or suppression existed within the climate change news release process.

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