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NASA full of 'fear and anxiety' since Trump took office, ex-employee says
The Guardian ^ | May 30, 2018 | by Oliver Milman

Posted on 05/30/2018 7:02:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Nasa’s output of climate change information aimed at the public has dwindled under the Trump administration, with a former employee claiming “fear and anxiety” within the agency has led to an online retreat from the issue.

Laura Tenenbaum, a former science communicator for Nasa, said she was warned off using the term “global warming” on social media and restricted in speaking to the media due to her focus on climate change.

“Nasa’s talking point is that it’s business as usual, but that’s not true,” said Tenenbaum, who departed Nasa in October after a decade at the space agency.

“They have stopped promoting or emphasizing climate science communication, they have minimized it. People inside the agency are concerned Trump will cut climate science funding. There is a fear and anxiety there and the outcome has been chaos.”

Tenenbaum said that around a month after Trump’s inauguration last year an “arduous review process” was put in place over every blog post, Facebook post and tweet that she put out from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

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Laura Tenenbaum, Writing and Editing Professional, Self-Employed, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Glendale Community College, CA 91208

1 posted on 05/30/2018 7:02:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WINNING!


2 posted on 05/30/2018 7:04:26 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Nasa’s talking point is that it’s business as usual, but that’s not true,” said Tenenbaum, who departed Nasa in October after a decade at the space agency.

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Winning!


3 posted on 05/30/2018 7:04:26 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NASA really has no business doing “Climate Science”.

Close NASA GISS at Columbia.


4 posted on 05/30/2018 7:04:48 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sour grapes.


5 posted on 05/30/2018 7:05:02 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good. Go back to real science.


6 posted on 05/30/2018 7:05:09 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gee, spending NASA’s taxpayer-provided funding on AGW alarmism and Muslim outreach are out of favor with the current administration? Who would have guessed?!


7 posted on 05/30/2018 7:06:08 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tenenbaum said that around a month after Trump’s inauguration last year an “arduous review process” was put in place over every blog post, Facebook post and tweet that she put out from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

Arduous review process = fact checking?

8 posted on 05/30/2018 7:06:26 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should be nervous if they cannot justify whatever it is that they do at work. The taxpayers should not be paying for unproductive activities with no positive outcomes.


9 posted on 05/30/2018 7:06:36 AM PDT by Starboard
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There are more ‘Climate Scientists’ in every university and two bit diploma mill on this planet that NASA ever dreamed about. We don’t need any more....................


10 posted on 05/30/2018 7:06:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

‘zackly !


11 posted on 05/30/2018 7:07:01 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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The taxpayers should not be paying for unproductive activities with no positive outcomes.

Like the Congress........................

12 posted on 05/30/2018 7:07:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Folks get paid to sit around and invent new complaints.

Then they pretend it is “proof” of a nonexistent condition.


13 posted on 05/30/2018 7:07:51 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
WTH is a "science communicator"?

In any case, welcome to real life, sweetie.

14 posted on 05/30/2018 7:08:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Decades ago, a friend of mine went to work for NASA-Ames in the Bay Area.
She told me it was filled with PhDs, all doing pointless work trying to ride things out till retirement.
She left soon after.


15 posted on 05/30/2018 7:08:31 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MAGA! Pack your bags you useless parasites!


16 posted on 05/30/2018 7:10:12 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At least this bitter Obama commissar has been purged. Still too many throughout the Federal government and the Media.


17 posted on 05/30/2018 7:10:29 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: moovova

Somebody is upset, that THEIR field of interest is no longer the topic de rigueur, or cause celebre.


18 posted on 05/30/2018 7:10:39 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fire them all. NASA should be focused on getting Americans back up to our space station, on putting Americans on the Moon, Mars, and elsewhere. Not on "climate science" as they are not a weather agency, not the NOAA.

"Self-employed? Nah, UN-EMPLOYED. Good riddance!

19 posted on 05/30/2018 7:11:06 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NASA spent $170,000 developing a pen that worked in Zero G. They proudly showed it to the Cosmonauts on the Space Lab. They asked the Russians what they used. “We use a pencil” was the answer.


20 posted on 05/30/2018 7:11:18 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 ("Good people do not need laws, bad people will find a way around them" Plato)
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