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Summary:   President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team for the Department of Energy has submitted a detailed questionnaire to the Department.   Many of the requests solicit personal information on department employees and consultants relating to the role, if any, they may have played in activities that the transition team appears to be questioning. The Department correctly has refused to provide answers that identify individuals and their activites, and will furnish only information that is available to the public. Seeking such information on individuals appears to be propagandizing the scientific activities of the Department.   By soliciting this information the transition team implicitly chills the activities of the staff, intimidating them as they carry out their professional duties and casting a pall on their job security.   Such behavior is intolerable and must be put to an immediate end.   Introduction. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s dictatorial regi...

Honorable President-Elect Trump: By the end of the present century, 2100, man-made global warming could be a major existential threat to humanity’s way of life on earth, and to the broad ecological balance underpinning our lives and those of future generations. Everyone will feel the consequences of worsening global warming .   I’m a scientist who is deeply concerned for the welfare not only of our planet’s present inhabitants, but especially for our progeny:   those whom we already know, and those yet to be born.   You and your family, including your children and your several grandchildren, as well as the members of your incoming administration and their families, will be among those who will be impacted as warming continues.     Why should we care about global warming?     Here’s a montage of images showing a sampling of damage and harm already brought on by warming, both domestically and abroad: Extreme events negatively impact our society and o...