Intelligence aide, blocked from submitting written testimony on climate change, resigns from State Dept.
July 10 at 1:35 PM
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Don’t let this important piece of news fly under the radar. Don’t let Drumpf and the White House whitewash the climate crisis!
Schoonover voluntarily left the State Department. He was to provide written testimony to Congress regarding the climate crisis, but the White House blocked that testimony.
Rod Schoonover — who worked in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research’s Office of the Geographer and Global Issues — spoke before the House Intelligence Committee on June 5 about the security risks the United States faces because of climate change. But White House officials would not let him submit the bureau’s written statement that climate impacts could be “possibly catastrophic,” after the State Department refused to cut references to federal scientific findings on climate change.
Drumpf continues to question human contribution to the climate crisis.
This compelling statement was what the White House couldn’t handle.
“Absent extensive mitigating factors or events, we see few plausible future scenarios where significant — possibly catastrophic — harm does not arise from the compounded effects of climate change."
Adam Schiff is demanding an investigation of the testimony suppression. Without support others in government are going to shy away from making statements imperative to assessing the climate crisis and our way forward.
We need a climate debate. We need to showcase such misdealing during the Democratic primary debate and shame this administration. The American people need to know how Drumpf and the White House are really [NOT] handling the climate crisis.
We can’t let Drumpf whitewash the climate crisis. We must have sound rational discussions aired nationally.