Orwellian: Scott Walker admin. quietly scrubs mentions of climate from Climate Change website

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Here are the full edits the DNR is sneaking through without fanfare to unsuspecting readers on that webpage – – changes caught by a webpage monitoring service.

Deletions are shown with a black line through them, words which were untouched remain in normal print, and the highlighted wording becomes part of the new text sandwiched together into what appears on what is a heavily-censored page, but without any way for the reader to spot the edits and altered meaning.

In short, the guts of this page are now gone, or sanitized.

This is Orwellian and propagandistic.


The story is reported by James Rowan at Urban Milwaukee and RawStory.com.

This is absolutely sickening.

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1. unbelieveable!

I'd write more but I'm too stunned!

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2. In yet another Trump Effect, Wisconsin scrubs references to climate change from state website

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By Tommy Christopher | December 31, 2016

The State of Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources has quietly followed the climate change Denier-in-Chief Donald Trump's lead by simply disappearing all mentions of human-caused climate change from its website.
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As if the consequences of climate change were not already terrifying enough, the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is creating a dangerous ripple effect with its overt hostility toward climate science.

Over the weekend, environmental writer James Rowen noticed something was amiss on a state website in Republican Governor Scott Walker’s Wisconsin:

Not content with having already stripped content and links from an agency webpage about climate change – – deletions I documented some years ago and which I have frequently referenced – – the ideologues intent on scrubbing science off these pages and sowing doubt and confusion about the consensus view of experts worldwide about climate change have edited, deleted and otherwise compressed information in order to whitewash long-standing concepts and facts off a climate change page about the Great Lakes…..

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