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In December, 2016 I discovered that key information about climate change and climate science had been scrubbed off the DNR's website without any agency disclosure.

More Walkerite/Orwellian censoring of WI DNR climate pages

I said "More...censoring" because Walker's DNR had removed many resources from the website as posted by the Doyle administration some years earlier, as I reprised, here:

The Walker administration's climate change web page scrubbing much in the news of late actually began in 2012, and was noted in this June 10, 2012 blog posting below I'll recirculate, updated, today, 12/30/16, as a way to highlight what the Walker people also deleted years ago.

More about Doyle's now-disbanded Global Warming Task Force, here.

When you obstruct and deny climate change science, you are obstructing awareness about this, and more, according to The New York Times on October 24th:

Human activity has deforested, replanted and irrigated large areas of land, added pollution to the skies, depleted the ozone layer and, yes, changed the concentrations of key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide levels are up 40 percent, methane has more than doubled, and we’ve introduced some purely synthetic compounds that are many times more potent than either of those but are fortunately present in lower, but growing, concentrations.

Like forensic detectives, climate scientists have developed a new array of tools in recent decades designed to skillfully calculate what the fingerprints of these changes look like, and more important, how they differ from one another. It turns out that increases in solar activity produce warming throughout the atmosphere, while carbon dioxide increases cooling in the upper atmosphere and warms the surface. Variations in ocean circulation distribute heat, while changes in the sun or in greenhouse gases change the total heat amount in the system. Air pollution, volcanoes and irrigation all cool the climate, while rising greenhouse gases warm it. Ozone depletion has increased the speed of the winds around Antarctica, affecting ocean circulation and sea ice.

And this, from The Washington Post on Oct. 7th:

The world has just over a decade to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say