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Related: About this forumIs Trump targeting climate researchers?
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Donald Trumps 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 nations 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 Obamas Climate Action Plan.
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Trump and his team have vowed to dismantle specific aspects of Obamas 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.
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While there have been many instances of political appointees and career scientists clashing in various administrations, what is novel is the request for the names of so many individual scientists, and the fact that it comes during the transition period, before the Trump administration has even taken power. This may be a signal of even more intense politicization after the inauguration.
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But what seems unusual is singling people out for a very specific substantive issue, and treating their work on that substantive issue as, by default, contaminating or disqualifying, Sabin said, adding that officials can now track a civil servants past activities in such a systematic way.
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 Obamas Climate Action Plan.
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Trump and his team have vowed to dismantle specific aspects of Obamas 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.
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While there have been many instances of political appointees and career scientists clashing in various administrations, what is novel is the request for the names of so many individual scientists, and the fact that it comes during the transition period, before the Trump administration has even taken power. This may be a signal of even more intense politicization after the inauguration.
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But what seems unusual is singling people out for a very specific substantive issue, and treating their work on that substantive issue as, by default, contaminating or disqualifying, Sabin said, adding that officials can now track a civil servants past activities in such a systematic way.
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/?utm_term=.7dab32567201
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Is Trump targeting climate researchers? (Original Post)
pscot
Dec 2016
OP
Targeting? Not yet...this is more like supression fire, or range finding, or shooting at their feet
ret5hd
Dec 2016
#2
They want to find out who they are to be able to fire them all on "Day One".
northoftheborder
Dec 2016
#3
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)1. Does the Energy Dept. have to supply this information?
ret5hd
(20,556 posts)2. Targeting? Not yet...this is more like supression fire, or range finding, or shooting at their feet
to make 'em dance.
But the targeting is sure to come next.
northoftheborder
(7,575 posts)3. They want to find out who they are to be able to fire them all on "Day One".
This is terrible, awful, sad.......
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)4. Yes