Trump is trying to fire all USDA scientists who work on climate change

[Botany]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/democrats-running-out-of-options-to-stop-trump-from-moving-two-usda-offices/2019/07/01/5260a12c-9829-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html?utm_term=.5bed0aeb9b4b

Move to Kansas City in 2 weeks .... where they have no offices or labs .... or be fired.

******

Members of Congress representing many of the D.C.-based federal workers whose jobs are about to be reassigned or moved to the Midwest are running out of ways to try to stop the Trump administration from relocating those offices.

Democratic lawmakers have written a flurry of letters, bills and amendments in a race to block the measures before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, with little success.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue last month finalized plans to move about 550 jobs at two scientific agencies in the Agriculture Department from Southwest Washington to the greater Kansas City region.

In a separate move, the administration has threatened to furlough and possibly lay off 150 workers at the Office of Personnel Management, the federal workforce’s human resources agency, if Congress blocks the administration’s plans to eliminate the department.

[elleng]

1. BEEN happening/threatening;

denouement approaching.

[Botany]

2. Ag. Sec. Sonny Perdue who is pushing this nonsense

Tens of thousands of farmers were not able to get their crops planted in 2019 because
of climate change and now this?

[elleng]

4. Yes, MORE screw us ALL!

Rachel's opener today was about 'origins' of their office (I think that's the correct history,) >>>> U.S. history of innovations in science to benefit EVERYONE. repugs thoughtlessly want to END IT.

[CottonBear]

13. In 2002, I told him to his face that I'd NEVER vote for a Republican.

This evil fuck actually has a DVM from the UGA School of Vet Med.
So, he studied and knows science.
He’s an evil Republican though, so he values greed over saving the planet.

He never practiced Veterinary Medicine, though. He went straight into the family Ag business. A friend of mine (who passed away several years ago) was his professor in Vet School.

[Botany]

14. Sonny Perdue got into the Governor's office in Georgia in 2002 thanx to Diebold too.

We are dealing with a level of corruption in this GOP/Trump cabal that is off the charts

[CottonBear]

16. Oh, I know. All thanks to , then Democratic SoS, Cathy Cox

who decided to have GA go 100% Diebold in 2002 in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential selection by the supreme court.

[Botany]

17. Both the Alabama & Georgia'a 2002 elections were way dirty.

And when Don Siegeleman protested the theft in Alabama Karl Rove had him put
into prison with the help of a very corrupt Federal Judge.

[rufus dog]

3. Every move is political

Always meant to hurt Blue areas and help Red areas.

SALT taxes were just the start, punishing the Blue States.

Just another daily reminder that we are war with Repukes, people need to understand this quickly. There is no working with these people, only way out of this mess it to beat them.

[elleng]

5. Yes, beat them BADLY.

If only we COULD!

[Botany]

6. Sonny Perdue got into the Governor's office in Georgia in 2002 thanx to Diebold

and now this?

https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2019/06/22/flooded-corn-fields-leave-crops-suffering-relentless-ohio-
rains/1484353001/

On June 11, when almost all of Ohio's corn should have been planted, only 50% of the crop was in the ground, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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This is, of course, not a problem that stops at the Ohio border. The planting season, overall, is at its slowest pace in 40 years.

There have been extreme weather events across the Midwest and the Great Plains during this year's planting season, one that typically ends by early June for corn and mid-June for soybeans.

At the beginning of June, 31 million acres of America's farmland remained unplanted.

There's been flooding in Missouri, tornadoes in Indiana and heavy rains pretty much everywhere else.

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[SunSeeker]

8. Trump handed over governing to oil industry lobbyists.

Trump is letting the right wing run with all their evil schemes.

[BigmanPigman]

9. He started this over two years ago.

I wrote about it here on DU. This is not new. He has been cutting money and personnel, restricted new research and already eliminated their voice to publish result of their studies, etc. SICK!

[misanthrope]

11. That's behind the Trump administration's focus on returning to the moon

They want to force NASA to adjust, to take funds from earth sciences (climate change) and allocate them toward lunar exploration. It's less about going to the moon and more about broiling us alive.

[dchill]

10. K&R.

[cwydro]

12. "Democratic lawmakers have written a flurry of letters..."

No words.

[UpInArms]

15. Charles Pierce reminded us ... of the Mother Jones article

Seems tRump has been working with Russian hackers for a long time

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/climategate-wikileaks-russia-trump-hacking/

Seven years earlier, Trump was riffing on a very different set of hacked emails. The real estate mogul had called into Fox News after a blizzard to declare that climate change was a hoax. Trump claimed that “one of the leaders of global warming” had recently admitted in a private email that years of scientific research were nothing but “a con.”

Trump was referring to the 2009 Climategate scandal, in which emails from climate scientists were hacked and disseminated across the internet. Climate change deniers claimed the messages showed scientists engaging in misconduct and fabricating a warming pattern that didn’t really exist. Multiple investigations ultimately exonerated the researchers, but not before a media firestorm undercut public confidence in the science—just as world leaders were meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, to attempt to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.

In hindsight, the Climategate hack, clearly timed to disrupt the Copenhagen negotiations, looks like a precursor to the hack that helped shape the outcome of the 2016 election. That’s how John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman whose stolen emails were posted on WikiLeaks in the final weeks of the campaign, sees it. The parallels go beyond the hacks themselves. “I think it was the intentionality of influencing the public debate,” he says.

At its core, Climategate was a story about emails—some admittedly embarrassing or poorly phrased—that were dumped online with the intent of altering a crucial global event. WikiLeaks republished the scientists’ emails. Talk radio and Fox News had a field day. Politicians soon followed. Mainstream reporters amplified out-of-context quotes. And the victims of the hack—especially Mann and the University of East Anglia’s Phil Jones—were not prepared for the deluge of investigations, personal attacks, and even death threats that followed.

At the time, some observers openly wondered whether Russia might have orchestrated the Climategate hack. Investigators and other experts haven’t found much to support that hypothesis—the true culprit remains a mystery. Mann himself has pointed to the incident’s “curious connections” to Russia and WikiLeaks, but he, too, notes there’s no specific evidence that Moscow was to blame. Still, Mann sees other ways in which the episode was similar to what Hillary Clinton experienced in 2016. Both hacks, he notes, were “intended to impact the global political scene in a significant manner.”

Here’s the Pierce article:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28251276/jimmy-carter-russia-donald-trump-2016/