Trump Interior Dept. bans climate experts from Zuckerberg tour of Glacier Nat. Pk.

[Tanuki]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/powerpost/wp/2017/07/20/climate-experts-pulled-from-glacier-national-park-tour-with-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg/

"....But days before the tech tycoon’s visit, the Trump administration abruptly removed two of the park’s top climate experts from a delegation scheduled to show him around, telling a research ecologist and the park superintendent that they were no longer going to participate in the tour.
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Interior Department press secretary Heather Swift made it clear that she did not want Glacier National Park Superintendent Jeff Mow involved in the tour, according to three people with knowledge of the decision. And the Park Service’s public affairs staff was instructed not to post anything about Zuckerberg’s visit on its Facebook or other social media accounts, including sharing a Facebook post he wrote during the visit in which he registered his alarm at the shrinking glaciers at the park, according to someone with knowledge of the directive.
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Mow is known as a climate expert who frequently tells visitors that the retreating ice sheets at Glacier are evidence of a climate undergoing rapid change. At high altitudes where most glaciers are found, temperatures are rising faster than in the valleys below, with signs pointing to even greater melting in the decades ahead.
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Daniel Fagre, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is based at Glacier, told The Washington Post this week that he had planned to take Zuckerberg to Logan Pass, a scenic spot on the Continental Divide. Fagre said he was “puzzled” by the decision to disinvite him from the delegation and said he was not given a reason. He has published widely on the retreat of glaciers as evidence of global warming."...(more)

[Laxman]

1. They Can Pretend.....

that it's not happening, but that doesn't change reality. Does Mr. Zuckerberg really need somebody to tell him what his eyes will see? In our lifetimes it will be Glacierless National Park-no matter what Trump's denialists might say.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Zuck shouldn't be Trump's pawn

Cancel... or bring your own climate scientists.
Better yet, bring Mow and Fagre.

[Tanuki]

3. According to the article, he wasn't aware of all the hijinks

until the visit was over. They did have people show him around and answer his questions.