#CSLDF
#ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund

https://www.csldf.org/contact/

Have you heard of #ClimateUS ?

"In June 2025, under pressure from the Trump administration, NOAA shut down daily operations of its award-winning Climate.gov website. They hid Climate.gov’s home page and froze its social media channels. Just like that, one of the most popular, most trustworthy sources of climate science information on the internet went silent. The team that built Climate.gov is fighting back with an effort to build a nonprofit successor: Climate.us. Donate to join the fight."

We've just added climate.us to our roster of worthy causes needing financial support from beneficiaries (all of us), joining the #ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund and a host of other worthy even if unfortunate necessities.

Don't look left, don't look right-- if each of us doesn't lift a finger, we have no reason to believe anybody else will. Pay a visit to the list, make some sensible choices, enjoy the real satisfaction of making a material difference.

#ClimateResearch
#ClimateScience

https://skepticalscience.com/Climate-Science-crowdfunding-crowdsourcing.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

"What can I do" includes supporting practiced, up-and-running legal protection systems for civil servants. A few dollars here, a few dollars there end up defraying major legal expenses entailed in court actions. Pro bono isn't everything.

An organization doing this for over a decade: The #ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund.

Not only does #CSLDF directly help with individual cases but it also produces legal analysis and practical advice useful to all US civil servants.

https://www.csldf.org/a-call-to-action/

The #ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund is conducting its summer fundraiser.

Why contribute to #CSLDF? Read about USGS scientist Dr. Virginia Burkett's whistle-blower action subsequent to being cruelly punished by political appointees of the previous administration for her staunch defense of scientific integrity-- led by CSLDF.

Scientists working for the US federal government are still highly vulnerable. Internal safeguards are inadequate. CSLDF is our defense.

Details:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02213-y

"This summer alone we have defended a climate professor aggressively subpoenaed by an oil company; helped an oceanographer facing retaliation after whistleblowing a faulty scientific report; and fought back against attempts to silence a climate blog by a misinformation propagandist."

Go, #CSLDF!

When climate science "skeptics" go truly nasty, they break out lawyers. The only reply: more lawyers.

The #ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund is ending its summer fundraiser. Give!
https://www.csldf.org/summer/

Here's something to do that is better than despairing cathartic rage.

"There can be no doubt that we are in a climate crisis. But nearly every week, new scientists have come to us for legal representation just to be able to do their jobs. Even in this escalating emergency, an alarming number of those studying climate solutions and even climate science itself continue to be targeted for their critical work. And we need your help."

#ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund

https://www.csldf.org/summer/

For folks potentially in the same jam as Abramoff & Kalmus, facing organizations with confused ethical priorities, there are means to reduce the personal costs of truth-speaking.

#ClimateSpeechSafety
#ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund

https://www.csldf.org/resource/first-amendment/