Grist: To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code

Grist: To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code

Grist: To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code. “At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts. ‘The forbidden C-word’ — climate. Roberts, union president at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois, has worked for the federal government for nearly a decade. In that time, the physical science tech…