To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code

Words considered "woke" are vanishing from National Science Foundation proposals. Grist tracked the changes.

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Politicians, the big corporations, the media, all those folks that were saying all those pretty words about #NetZero exhibiting historic cowardice about talking #ClimateChange and #BigOil couldn’t be happier about it bsky.app/profile/cove... #TalkClimate #EndClimateSilence #ClimateHushing #Climate

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