Agriculture Department buries studies showing dangers of climate change
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Source: Politico
The Trump administration has stopped promoting government-funded research into how higher temperatures can damage crops and pose health risks.
By HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH
06/23/2019 05:04 PM EDT Updated 06/23/2019 06:02 PM EDT
The Trump administration has refused to publicize dozens of government-funded studies that carry warnings about the effects of climate change, defying a longstanding practice of touting such findings by the Agriculture Department’s acclaimed in-house scientists.
The studies range from a groundbreaking discovery that rice loses vitamins in a carbon-rich environment — a potentially serious health concern for the 600 million people world-wide whose diet consists mostly of rice — to a finding that climate change could exacerbate allergy seasons to a warning to farmers about the reduction in quality of grasses important for raising cattle.
All of these studies were peer-reviewed by scientists and cleared through the non-partisan Agricultural Research Service, one of the world’s leading sources of scientific information for farmers and consumers.
None of the studies were focused on the causes of global warming – an often politically charged issue. Rather, the research examined the wide-ranging effects of rising carbon dioxide, increasing temperatures and volatile weather........................................
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/agriculture-department-climate-change-1376413
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That said scientists haven't already been fired.
courtesy of red don and his toadies including Smilin' Sonny Perdue, brought in to be the hatchet man figurehead as the Heriturd Fuckdation deconstructs USDA.
We don't need no stinkin' reality as reflected in science.
