Owlet of Minerva

Of all the fallout of the Trump administration's assault on truth and vandalizing of institutions, this gets to me.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-climate-scientist-kate-marvel-just-resigned-from-nasa-heres-why/

I've been a fan of Kate Marvel's writing for as long as she's been a NASA scientist discovering important things about global warming. A riotously funny tweeter/blogger, she went on to write beautiful essays probing the emotional, existential depths of knowing what we're doing to the only known planet with whiskey.

(Check out https://www.marvelclimate.com/)

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Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why

Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

Scientific American
Mar 25 at 9:44pmWeb
Show threadOwlet of Minerva4d ago

The selfish thought does strike me that maybe she'll have more time to write. But good writing comes not just from having a way with words but from Having Things To Say, in this case from doing science that matters. Any civilization with a shred of sense would do its best to maintain places like NASA GISS where people like Marvel could nerd away at the coalface of discovery to their hearts' content. And in that coal-mine metaphor, her resignation is a canary.

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