Are Climate Scientists Lying About Their Work to Secure US Research Grants?
3 hours ago Eric Worrall
Essay by Eric Worrall
“… I still have the grant because I changed the title …”
Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’
US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety
Oliver Milman
Fri 21 Feb 2025 23.00 AEDT
The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”
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Researchers said work mentioning climate is being particularly targeted. One environmental scientist working in the western US who did not want to be named said their previously awarded grant from the Department of Transportation for climate-adaption research had been withdrawn, until they retitled it to remove the word “climate”.
“I still have the grant because I changed the title,” the scientist said. “I was told that I needed to do so before the title of the grant was published on the US DoT [Department of Transportation] website in order to keep it. The explanation was that the priorities of the current administration don’t include climate change and other topics considered ‘woke’.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/21/are-us-climate-scientists-lying-about-their-work-to-secure-grants/
