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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Trump expected to name climate-denying conservative talk show host as head USDA scientist
  • Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 11:36:12 -0400

[not unexpected hiring an ignorant bloated jackass whore to further corrupt
the usda]

Trump expected to name climate-denying conservative talk show host as head
USDA scientist
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-usda-sam-clovis-scientist-not-f91014ef57a2

The Trump administration’s attack on basic science
<https://thinkprogress.org/trump-budget-noaa-scary-885d90b4b7c3> continues
apace, with rumors circulating that President Donald Trump will soon tap
former campaign policy adviser and one-time conservative radio talk show
host Sam Clovis to be the lead scientist at the Department of Agriculture.
Trump will reportedly name Clovis to lead the USDA’s Research, Education
and Economics division despite the fact that Clovis has no background in
the hard sciences, as well as no demonstrable policy experience with either
food or agriculture.

The USDA’s undersecretary of research, education and economics oversees the
entire scientific mission of the USDA, as well as the department’s economic
agencies

Since Trump’s election in November, Clovis has been the administration’s
senior policy adviser at the USDA. In January, he signed off on a memo
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/24/usda-science-researchers-ordered-to-stop-publishing-news-releases-other-documents/?utm_term=.2387d0838b06>
sent to USDA scientists telling them to cease publication of “outward
facing” documents, like news releases and fact sheets. Another memo
instructed department officials to clear any media communications directly
with the acting secretary.
Clovis is an outspoken climate denier, telling Iowa Public Radio in a 2014
interview that climate science is “junk science” and “not proven.” In
October, he told E&E News that a Trump administration would not prioritize
climate science in its agriculture policy.



  • [permaculture] Trump expected to name climate-denying conservative talk show host as head USDA scientist, Lawrence London, 05/18/2017

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