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.
The administration, researchers said, appears to be trying to limit the circulation of evidence of climate change and avoid press coverage that may raise questions […]
I personally agree with you in that I feel what has happened in this corrupt regime marks the end of the U.S.A. as a world power, and possibly the end of the U.S.A. as an actual nation “united” as well. In a strange way I find hope in the apparent deconstruction of power to bio-regions or states, such as the open defiance of Trump by New York, California, and New Mexico, etc. The suppression of vital information, the removal of environmental protections hard fought for in order to benefit big business, and the crazy denial of science forbodes tragedies we are wholly unprepared for.