All that's missing are opening remarks from Scott Walker.
I'd earlier noted the ironies and contradictions posed in an annual Great Lakes' water preservation and policy session scheduled in Sheboygan June 5th-7th - - the same city where a lakeshore golf course plan in a water-dependent nature preserve - -
- - stirred strong opposition and has been blocked by a judge over wetland filling, water quality issues and planning deficiencies.
Now a look at the meeting's agenda shows its credibility being further watered down.
* I note in the meeting;s Delegate Program Agenda that current US EPA Great Lakes regional official and former Wisconsin DNR climate change censor Cathy Stepp is on a speaker on the opening day.
Stepp, seriously? After gutting her agency, mocking its mission, deleting scientific information and wishing out loud that she'd preferred managing her McDonald's workers than state agency professionals.
Details, here.
And do you think Stepp will stay through the session's second morning when a real expert the realities of climate change which I'd discovered she'd stripped from the DNR's website.
On the Delegate Program Agenda, Kohler Co. is listed as the "Gala sponsor."
I'd earlier noted the ironies and contradictions posed in an annual Great Lakes' water preservation and policy session scheduled in Sheboygan June 5th-7th - - the same city where a lakeshore golf course plan in a water-dependent nature preserve - -
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Now a look at the meeting's agenda shows its credibility being further watered down.
* I note in the meeting;s Delegate Program Agenda that current US EPA Great Lakes regional official and former Wisconsin DNR climate change censor Cathy Stepp is on a speaker on the opening day.
Stepp, seriously? After gutting her agency, mocking its mission, deleting scientific information and wishing out loud that she'd preferred managing her McDonald's workers than state agency professionals.
Details, here.
And do you think Stepp will stay through the session's second morning when a real expert the realities of climate change which I'd discovered she'd stripped from the DNR's website.
Climate change censors driven by science denial and obeisance to polluters these days at the GOP-managed, Scott Walker-redefined "chamber of commerce mentality" Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are at it again...
Gone are references to known "human activities" contributing to a warming planet, warming's contributions to changes in rainfall and snowfall patterns, extreme weather events, drought, species and economic losses as a result among other truths whitewashed off this official, taxpayer-financed website.Stepp did all that in response to one conservative writer's suggestion, the Journal Sentinel reported:
Chillingly, this entire line - - with its positive message and a call to action - - is now deleted:
The good news is that we can all work to slow climate change and lessen its effects.As are multiple links to climate change resources, many specific to the Great Lakes materials - - despite the title of the page - - "The Great Lakes and a changing world."
The Lakeland Times reported that Wisconsin's environmental protection agency removed information saying humans and greenhouse gases are the main causes of climate change two days after the newspaper raised the issue with Secretary Cathy Stepp...
The DNR updated a web page on the Great Lakes on Dec. 21, saying climate change is a matter of scientific debate, striking sentences attributing global warming to human activities and rising levels of carbon dioxide.The expert whose session Stepp will probably skip previewed his talk with definitive language - - "Climate change is causing significant and far-reaching impacts on the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region" - - and is described in the program this way:
In Conversation with Dr. Don Wuebbles
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin and How to Move Forward
Donald J. Wuebbles is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Illinois and is an expert in atmospheric physics and chemistry. As an award winning, world renowned climate scientist with over 500 scientific publications and research on the Great Lakes, he brings a unique and important perspective to waterfront communities especially surrounding the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. He has co-authored a number of international and national scientific assessments, including several international climate assessments led by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for which IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He co-led the first volume of the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment published in November 2017 that assesses the science of climate change, and co-authored Volume II published in November 2018. Dr. Wuebbles worked with 17 scientists and other experts in producing the 2019 Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes.* And here's something in between tone-deaf 'planning' and in-your-face-disrespecl when the owner of the golf course project which Stepp's DNR greenlit, and which has been blocked by a judge, is the host of the meeting's closing dinner.
On the Delegate Program Agenda, Kohler Co. is listed as the "Gala sponsor."
GALA SPONSOR:
Gala Dinner at the American Club (All attendees welcome)
6:00 pm -7:00 pm
Cocktail Hour
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Dinner and Entertainment