'We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston

BOSTON — Hundreds of scientists and their supporters rallied in historic Copley Square on Sunday, demanding that the Trump administration accept empirical reality on issues such as climate change and highlighting the centrality of objective information to making policy.

The Rally to Stand Up for Science
in Boston’s Copley Square. 

“We did not politicize science,” said Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard science historian who spoke at the rally, which unfolded on a surprisingly warm February day that left the square filled with mud puddles from the melt of a recent blizzard. “We did not start this fight.”

“Our colleagues who have been attacked have not been attacked because they did something wrong,” Oreskes continued. “They have been attacked because they did something right” — namely, producing information that proved politically inconvenient.

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The 'greenwash' of Earth Hour explained

Read this and maybe your opinion of the much acclaimed “Earth Hour” may change, or at least your view of some of it biggest supporters.

Writing on the ABC’s “The Drum” Guy Pearse said

in a story headed: “Environmental absolution one greenwash at a time” that: “Far from representing a great social movement, Earth Hour is an opportunity for the most culpable to absolve themselves”.

He compares the idea of “Earth Hour” with “Quit Hour”.