Interior Dept. ordered Glacier park chief, other climate expert pulled from Zuckerberg tour

[riversedge]

Source: washpost





By Lisa Rein July 20 at 3:34 PM


Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg flew to Glacier National Park on Saturday to tour the melting ice fields that have become the poster child for climate change’s effects on Montana’s northern Rockies.

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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It capped days of internal discussions — including conference calls and multiple emails — among top Interior Department and Park Service officials about how much the park should roll out the welcome mat for Zuckerberg, who with the broader tech community in Silicon Valley has positioned himself as a vocal critic of President Trump, particularly of his withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.


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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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/07/20/climate-experts-pulled-from-glacier-national-park-tour-with-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.ce0d794a8aa1

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Geeze, I really am so angry, I am sputtering!!



"The decision to micromanage Zuckerberg’s stop in Montana from 2,232 miles east in Washington, made by top officials at the Interior Department, the National Park Service’s parent agency, was highly unusual — even for a celebrity visit."

Link to tweet

A woman paddles among floating chunks of ice on Upper Grinnell Lake next to the remnants of the Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park in Montana. (Ben Herndon)

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Trump supporters want the planet to be unlivable, that is when Jeebus returns

Each hour I get angrier, and angrier.

But most Americans are not paying any attention, so there is absolutely no fucking hope and that makes me even madder and more and more determined to do something.

We need billionaires who are not bought off assholes to help us do something. We need help.

[Stuart G]

2. Guess what...Zuckerberg will find out about this..no doubt..because he can read..

and when he reads this, if he cares, he will be very very mad..
Because when someone tries crap like this..on a CEO, if they are sensitive and care..then they will be mad..
And no doubt, someone will show this to Mr. Zuckerberg..and if I was him, (I am not) I would be beyond furious...raging mad..for 2 reasons:

l. that someone would deliberately take climate scientists away from a prominent citizen as he (Zuckerberg)
tries to investigate an important world problem........
2. that the someone who did this, thought he/she could get away with such a stunt...

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Let's see...these two paragraphs, from the OP..tell us the background..read for yourself...note, .." vocal critic of President Trump, particularly of his withdrawal from Paris climate accord"
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It capped days of internal discussions — including conference calls and multiple emails — among top Interior Department and Park Service officials about how much the park should roll out the welcome mat for Zuckerberg, who with the broader tech community in Silicon Valley has positioned himself as a vocal critic of President Trump, particularly of his withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.

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.

[Achilleaze]

3. the republican Ministry of Disinformation

is in high gear.

They do their best to hide the truth, and to prop up the illegitimate republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and his illegitimate KGOP Cabal of Colluding Comrades.

[Judi Lynn]

4. These destructive idiots should never be allowed anywhere authority. They are not worthy. n/t

[diva77]

5. Interestingly, that's the kind of thing they do in Russia

A distinguished friend of mine visited Moscow years ago to view certain medical care operations and he was ushered into a side room to look at a contrived idealized sample of what was going on and was never allowed to view the actual medical care operation he had traveled there to see...

[DK504]

6. If Zuckerberg really wanted to start a long term project for the planet could be

be building a desalinization plant in central California. The more water that can get into the Central Valley and the rest of the West Coast can build up forests that have been burning out of control for the past 30 years. He and his other pals in the tech business could build a few in Eastern Africa, helping Somalia and Ethiopia with the drought that has strangled the country and help create a large percentage of their problems.

Unless he and his pals are banging the drum and using the platform they have to help educate the public he is doing no good.

[Bayard]

7. I hope he contacts these people privately

But I'm sure Zuckerberg already knows what's going on. He didn't get where he's at by being stupid.