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I'm a scientist. Under Trump I lost my job for refusing to hide climate crisis facts
Maria Caffrey
I was a climate scientist in a climate-denying administration and it cost me my job
Thu 25 Jul 2019 02.00 EDT
The Trump administrations hostility towards climate science is not new. Interior climate staffer Joel Clements reassignment and the blocking of intelligence aide Rod Schoonovers climate testimony, which forced both federal employees to resign in protest, are just two of the innumerable examples. These attempts to suppress climate science can manifest themselves in many ways. It starts with burying important climate reports and becomes something more insidious like stopping climate scientists from doing their jobs. In February 2019, I lost my job because I was a climate scientist in a climate-denying administration. And yet my story is no longer unique.
This is why on 22 July I filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration. But this is not the only part to my story; I will also speak to Congress on 25 July about my treatment and the need for stronger scientific integrity protections.
I have worked at the National Park Service (NPS) for a total of eight years. I started out as an intern during the Bush administration, where I experienced nothing like this. I returned in 2012 after earning my PhD, when the NPS funded a project I designed to provide future sea level and storm surge estimates for 118 coastal parks under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. This kind of information is crucial in order for the NPS to adequately protect coastal parks against the future effects of the climate crisis.
I handed in the first draft of my scientific report in the summer of 2016 and, after the standard rigorous scientific peer review process, it was ready for release in early 2017. But once the new administration came into power, publication was repeatedly delayed, with increasingly vague explanations from my supervisors. So for months, I waited. And waited. I was still waiting when I went on maternity leave almost a year later in December 2017.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/25/trump-administration-climate-crisis-denying-scientist
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I'm a scientist. Under Trump I lost my job for refusing to hide climate crisis facts (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jul 2019
OP
Need we remind money hungry RepubliCons that taxpayers paid to discover those facts. D taxpayers.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2019
#5
secondwind
(16,903 posts)1. K&R !!!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. Now drumpf needs to lose his job.
How can one creature f'up everything?
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)3. He had all the help he needed with the complicit republicans in Congress.
Especially mcturtle and now barr.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,728 posts)4. Here's hoping climate change...
is stronger and has more integrity than some in congress...maybe that way trump can be blown out of the white nationalist house.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)6. And Bribe-a-way-go is under water. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)5. Need we remind money hungry RepubliCons that taxpayers paid to discover those facts. D taxpayers.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)7. Mygawd! How unfair!!
But give it 10 more years, it'll be impossible to deny, even for the raving idiots...who'll deny they ever denied.
I deny I ever posted this.
2naSalit
(86,636 posts)8. K&R
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)9. I am glad that TRMS has covered this
Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)10. The Truth is the enemy of fascists.
Melt the witch, not the planet.