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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...

This writer submitted the following Letter to the Editor of the Hartford (CT) Courant, which was published November 16, 2016 .   The text is shown below, followed by a screen shot   of the letter from the Courant’s website.                                =============================   Letters   Trump is Global Warming Danger   NOVEMBER 16, 2016   President-elect Donald Trump has tweeted that "global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive". He has appointed a global warming denier, Myron Ebell, to lead the transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency, where he will oversee dismantling federal policies directed toward reducing emission rates.   Undoing America 's leadership role in the world's 2015 agreement to battle global war...

Rana started out her career as a broadcast journalist with Jordan Television. After working with CNN during the First Gulf War, she moved to the Royal Hashemite Court where she was responsible for His Majesty the late King Hussein’s International Media Department for 2 years. Rana then moved into the field of communications and public relations leading the public diplomacy and communications work of the British Embassy in Amman for 18 years. Throughout her 25-year career - whether it was conducting interviews with Heads of State, making arrangements for Royal visits and VIP events, formulating communications strategies or attending diplomatic corps' receptions and formal dinners - business etiquette, protocol and cross-cultural communications were always an essential part of her work. Rana learned first-hand from top professionals in the field and put it all into practice throughout her career. As Communications and Public Diplomacy manager, Rana provided Cross-cultural communicati...