'Orwellian': Scott Walker admin. quietly scrubs mentions of 'climate' from 'Climate Change' website

Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's administration has removed the word "climate" from a Department of Natural Resources website dedicated to climate change.

Throughout his time as governor of Wisconsin, Walker has taken a series of actions to "reduce the role of science in environmental policymaking and to silence discussion of controversial subjects, including climate change, by state employees," according to the Scientific American.

Political writer James Rowen reported on Monday that the Walker administration had advanced their war on science by scrubbing information about climate change from a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website that was dedicated to explaining how the agency would deal with a warming planet.

The DNR page titled "climatechange.html" originally acknowledged that "[h]uman activities that increase heat–trapping ('green house') gases are the main cause [of global warming.] Earth´s average temperature has increased 1.4 °F since 1850 and the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 1998."

In all, 13 mentions of "climate" where stripped from the page along with all references to global warming. The word "climate" now appears only in the title of a footnote link at the bottom of the page.

"In short, the guts of this page are now gone, or sanitized," Rowan observed. "This is Orwellian and propagandistic."

Read the full accounting of what was deleted from DNR's climate change website below via Urban Milwaukee.

[caption id="attachment_953767" align="alignnone" width="715"] Wisconsin DNR scrubs climate change from website (James Rowen/Urban Milwaukee)[/caption]