Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings

[kwassa]

this article is some hours too old to appear in LBN, so I am putting it here.

This is the first salvo in the war on climate science. This is the start of a witch hunt.

Donald Trump’s transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department, asking agency officials to identify which employees and contractors have worked on forging an international climate pact as well as domestic efforts to cut the nation’s carbon output.

The questionnaire requests a list of those individuals who have taken part in international climate talks over the past five years and “which programs within DOE are essential to meeting the goals of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.”

Trump and his team have vowed to dismantle specific aspects of Obama’s climate policies, and Trump has questioned the reality of climate change. The questionnaire, which one Energy Department official described as unusually “intrusive” and a matter for departmental lawyers, has raised concern that the Trump transition team is trying to figure out how to target the people, including civil servants, who have helped implement policies under Obama.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/09/trump-transition-team-for-energy-department-seeks-names-of-employees-involved-in-climate-meetings/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_climatescientists-1230p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d2fd83f01b10

[annabanana]

1. BIG RED FLAG

"Trump transition team is trying to figure out how to target the people, including civil servants, who have helped implement policies under Obama."

Give him these:
John Doe
Bluto bin Bulbo
Oliver Orangutan

[underpants]

2. Political enemies list

Plain and simple

[kwassa]

3. They are going after career civil servants, scientists ....

trying to turn science into a political item. Fake science, like fake news.