As a meteorologist, I loved reading about and seeing pictures of the clever signs from Boston's "Stand up for Science" rally last week. Here's the article and pictures from the Boston Globe
The nerdiest signs from
Boston’s ‘stand up for science’ rally
Nik
DeCosta-Klipa Boston Globe
February 19, 2017
People took to the streets of Boston again Sunday afternoon —
this time in the name of science.
“This isn’t meant to be partisan or advocate for any particular
outcome of research,’’Jacquelyn Gill, a University of Maine scientist who spoke
at the rally, told The Boston Globe earlier this week. “We’re standing up for
evidence-based decision-making, and science that’s done for the public good.”
Nevertheless, as hundreds filled Copley Square,
the message was in equal measure in support of science as it was a response to
President Donald Trump. The combination produced an array of creative
politically-tinged signs that the very nerd-at-heart would appreciate.
Much of the protest was directed toward the Trump administration’s positions and actions regarding
environmental science and climate change, including the Republican president’s
appointment of climate-science skeptic Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental
Protection Agency.
Yet there were also more than a few jabs at the Trump team’s tendency to play
fast and loose with fact-based reality.
Not that all the signs were explicitly anti-Trump. Many were
very much apolitical.
Others were less so.
There were even a few dogs who got in on the demonstration.
And, of course, it wouldn’t be a true protest without that guy.
