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.@maddow looks at the history of scientific research and global leadership by the USDA and says efforts by the Trump admin. have led to the obscuring of its climate change research. on.msnbc.com/31YCgl0 (1/6)
@maddow “Scientists at places like USDA are leading the world in that kind of research, and that is happening despite the best efforts of the Trump administration to shut all of that down.” - @maddow on.msnbc.com/31YCgl0 (2/6)
@maddow .@maddow shares a report by Politico that reviews how the Agriculture Dept. has "buried" studies that quantify the dangers of climate change, including one study on rice that affects an estimated 600,000,000 people. on.msnbc.com/31YCgl0 (3/6)
@maddow Washington Post reports that USDA scientists were recently given a document outlining a choice to accept a forced relocation away from USDA research agencies "or be fired." on.msnbc.com/31YCgl0 (4/6)
@maddow Scientists are warning that this move will decimate the ranks of researchers at one of America's premier scientific institutions, @maddow says.
“These agencies are going to lose 80, 90, or 100 percent of their scientists all at once.” on.msnbc.com/31YCgl0 (5/6)
“These agencies are going to lose 80, 90, or 100 percent of their scientists all at once.” on.msnbc.com/31YCgl0 (5/6)
@maddow “This kind of world-leading, elite, scientific capacity that we have built and paid for as American taxpayers for generations...that is capacity that will be really hard to ever get back,” @maddow argues on.msnbc.com/31YCgl0 (6/6) #NBCNewsThreads
