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Trump Fires Head Of U.S. Global Change Research Program

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 9, 2020
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Trump Fires Head Of U.S. Global Change Research Program

Trump administration removes head of Federal climate program that oversees key reports, Washington Post
“[Michael Kuperberg’s removal] seems quite consistent with decisions at NOAA and elsewhere,” said Kathy Jacobs, director of the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of Arizona, who ran the third National Climate Assessment. “[It’s] a last-minute attempt to remove people who may not be perceived as supporting the president’s agenda.” Kuperberg’s removal comes in the wake of the hiring of two recent high-level political officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), David Legates and Ryan Maue, who are on the record challenging the seriousness of climate change. Staff at that top climate science agency have expressed concerns that those appointees could try to influence the next assessment as well, though neither has been tasked with a formal role in producing it so far.”
Former NASA Chief Of Staff Erik Noble Purges NOAA Chief Scientist, earlier post
USGS Director (Former NASA Astronaut) James Reilly Retaliated Against Whistleblower (Update), earlier post

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One response to “Trump Fires Head Of U.S. Global Change Research Program”

  1. numbers_guy101 says:
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    I can’t help but think of the horrible time period California went through, 80s, 90s, turn of the century. The transition to a multi-ethnic society respecting and expecting and accepting and trying to jntegrate all voices in the democratic world was ugly.

    Nowadays many challenges remain obviously, but I dread the same horrible transition awaits the US as a whole. Maybe we are at the middle.

    One day we will be arguing about how to have universal healthcare, not if. One day we will argue over the upper marginal tax rate increase, this percent or another, not lowering it. One day we will argue over how to make public schools all have enough resources to educate children, the same in a poorer neighborhood as a wealthy one, not if its a goal. One day we’ll argue over reducing emissions and handling the climate change we caused, not over if its a thing.