Death Taxes and Science Denial

Stephen Mulkey
5 min readMay 16, 2020
Graphic from The Conversation

Indelible in my memory is that day that I lost my political virginity. In March 2007 I was just beginning to deliver an invited talk on the science of climate change to a joint committee of the Florida legislature when a conservative senator rose from his seat and called me a charlatan and demanded that I be dismissed. I was asked to step down.

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Stephen Mulkey

Environmental scientist and educator; forest and climate change ecologist.