{"id":1523,"date":"2010-06-10T05:37:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2010-07-08T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T21:23:11","slug":"noaa-chief-promotes-transparency-in-science-regarding-bp-oil-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/06\/10\/noaa-chief-promotes-transparency-in-science-regarding-bp-oil-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Chief Promotes Transparency in Science Regarding BP Oil Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan once sang that &#8220;you don&#8217;t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.&#8221; \u00a0But if you&#8217;re the part of the federal government charged with conducting scientific studies of the biggest environmental disaster in the nations history, and what you say profoundly impacts millions of people&#8217;s lives and the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico, then you probably DO want a weather man to say which way the wind blows.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, everybody &#8211; me included &#8211; is growing more and more outraged at the scale of this disaster. \u00a0 We want information about what\u2019s really happening out there: where\u2019s the oil? How much is there? What\u2019s the toxicity? How will the ecosystem respond?<\/p>\n<p>Caught in the middle is NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco. \u00a0She has the unenviable task of conducting scientific studies in the middle of this mess and she deserves credit for promoting government transparency in the science around the disaster.\u00a0 As soon as <a href=\"https:\/\/connect1.edf.org\/f5-w-687474703a2f2f7777772e6e6f61616e6577732e6e6f61612e676f76$$\/stories2010\/20100608_weatherbird.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>results<\/strong><\/a> were validated Tuesday, NOAA communicated and released to the public data from the recent scientific mission of the R\/V Weatherbird II that tested Gulf water.\u00a0 This was an important step to\u00a0build\u00a0public confidence in the government\u2019s handling of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Crisis situations like the BP oil disaster remind us all that the public has a right to know what\u2019s going on. While I\u2014and I\u2019m sure many others\u2014are frustrated that many of our questions haven\u2019t yet been answered,\u00a0transparency in the results gives me confidence that we are getting the full story.<\/p>\n<p><em>Never miss a post! <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/EDFish\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/strong> to EDFish via a email or a feed reader.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan once sang that &#8220;you don&#8217;t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.&#8221;  But if you&#8217;re the part of the federal government charged with conducting scientific studies of the biggest environmental disaster in the nations history, and what you say profoundly impacts millions of people&#8217;s lives and the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico, then you probably DO want a weather man to say which way the wind blows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/06\/10\/noaa-chief-promotes-transparency-in-science-regarding-bp-oil-disaster\/\" \/>Read the full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[1061],"coauthors":[5167],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulf-of-mexico","tag-bp-oil-disaster"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NOAA Chief Promotes Transparency in Science Regarding BP Oil Disaster - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/06\/10\/noaa-chief-promotes-transparency-in-science-regarding-bp-oil-disaster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NOAA Chief Promotes Transparency in Science Regarding BP Oil Disaster - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bob Dylan once sang that &quot;you don&#039;t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.&quot; But if you&#039;re the part of the federal government charged with conducting scientific studies of the biggest environmental disaster in the nations history, and what you say profoundly impacts millions of people&#039;s lives and the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico, then you probably DO want a weather man to say which way the wind blows.  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