Silencing Science (Rebroadcast)

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4.7 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump says he doubts humans have much of a role in climate change. His administration has downplayed the science of climate change and sought to silence scientists working for the federal government.*
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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:04.5	I'm Al Etzen.
0:06.2	It's officially hurricane season, plus it's that time of year when a lot of people had
0:10.9	the national parks on their vacations.
0:13.4	So we're updating a show from earlier this year.
0:15.9	It's about the suppression of science, especially climate change science and federal agencies.
0:21.8	Reveals use government data to make maps of future flooding at 10 popular US parks near
0:26.9	coastlines.
0:28.1	Our science reporter Elizabeth Schoegren is with me.
0:30.5	Hey Elizabeth.
0:31.5	Hello Al.
0:32.5	Okay, so let's look at some of these maps.
0:34.1	This one is the National Mall in Washington, DC.
0:37.7	That's what the mall looks like now, but take the cursor and swipe left.
0:41.7	Okay.
0:42.7	So I'm seeing the Martin Luther King Memorial, the Vietnam Wall are submerged.
0:47.3	The Washington monument is just a little island surrounded by water and the coastline now
0:51.7	goes right up against the Pentagon.
0:54.4	This is what the mall would look like in 2050 if the east coast gets hit with a category
0:58.6	3 hurricane.
1:00.2	This is from National Park Service Projections.
1:02.9	And Al, you're from Florida, right?
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