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The US agencies are fundamental in the fight against climate change, but Trump has already begun to dismantle them

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The US agencies are fundamental in the fight against climate change, but Trump has already begun to dismantle them



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We are attending live something really worrying. It has been less than a week since the inauguration and the funds of the Environmental Protection Agency have been frozen, several agencies (such as agriculture, interior or environment) have been ordered to cease any type of public communication and have Deleted tits from official accounts for containing data on climate change. When things like the rate of CO2 in air or the acidity of the sea are subversive, something is coming out badly wrong.And the worst of all is that it is not a local issue. Sometimes, we are not fully aware of how much we depend on US agencies and research centers to study the climate and the ecological crisis. Therefore, to attend what seems to be the systematic dismantling of all the institutions that have been created in the last 30 years, is something that affects us (and a lot) to all of us live where we live.

Government agencies can not communicate their work
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On Monday it became known that the Trump administration had ordered the EPA (the Environmental Protection Agency) to stop communicating in public. That included press releases, articles or any other type of messages on social networks.

Yesterday, Buzzfeed revealed that the United States Department of Agriculture had prohibited its workers from sharing or disclosing their work. Especially members of the Agricultural Research Service, which studies food security and production and the state of natural resources.

That is, less than a week after the inauguration the US government has already neutralized two of the key agencies in the country's environmental protection. Their researchers may publish in scientific journals, but they can not talk about their research in public, nor give publicity to their work.

EPA funds blocked
If you can do them, of course. As announced by ProPublica and confirmed by the White House, the EPA had frozen all aid and contracts indefinitely. That is to say, financing has been blocked for a good part of all the environmental research that is underway. According to the calculations of The Verge, the amount of blocked funds could amount to around 8,600 million dollars and will affect many research projects.

Do not forget that Trump has a long history of comments in which he denies the existence of climate change and has chosen to lead this new phase of the EPA to Scott Pruitt, known for having subjected the agency to continuous lawsuits along with oil companies , mining companies and other large polluting industries.



This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice

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When the facts are subversive
The tension has been increasing. And it has reached Twitter. Yesterday, at the last minute, the twitter account of the Badlands National Park in South Dakota tweeted a handful of data on climate change. Nothing especially subversive (the rate of CO2 in air or the acidity of the sea) but in this context it was received as a challenge to the White House policy.

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And, in fact, they were. Do not forget that last week, the official account of the US Parks Service retweeted a series of critical messages with the president on the day of his inauguration. Although there is no relationship between both communication cabinets, the challenge was more than evident.

So much so that, at the end of the day, the tweets were erased. But already the community of experts of the climate was revolutionized: beyond the political intentionality or not of those tweets, what was being erased were objective data on the climate situation; data elaborated by the North American agencies themselves. The situation is quite complicated.


Although the European Union and other countries have very important projects to study climate change, the resources, the scientific staff and the infrastructure provided by the United States are fundamental.The global monitoring of temperatures, the evolution of storms and hurricanes, the state of underground aquifers, the quality of soils or the monitoring of forest fires ... Much of today's understanding of environmental problems depends on decades of investigations of at least a dozen North American agencies. Agencies that monitor in real time and make available to scientists around the world an infinity of data that we would not have otherwise.

When in December we talked about the scientists who were trying to put all the information about climate change on US government servers safely, it all looked like science fiction and scaremongering. Today, it seems that it was the most sensible decision. The political war for the climate has only just begun.