Trump's censorship of climate change
Mr. Donald Trump once again gives us a review of dark tactics to indirectly benefit coal or oil. This time, its originality for going directly from climate change as it only affects others, is grammatical and with censorship.
From the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA, for its acronym in English) they have issued an internal circular where the use of one of the most recognized expressions worldwide is censored "climate change”In its administrative documents, in favor of a softer and less recognizable one, it would instead be al as“ climatic extremes ”or“ extreme meteorological phenomena ”.
From the British newspaper The Guardian they have had access to several internal emails of the Department of Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS, for its acronym in English and dependent on the USDA) in which the director Bianca Moebius-Clune lists a series of terms that should avoid using personnel and which ones should be replaced.
We leave a summary of the most interesting part of the Emails that can be consulted from HERE.
As you can see in the previous image, several terms are alluded to. Instead of 'adaptation to climate change', staff are asked to use 'resilience to extreme weather events' as an example.
The main cause of human-caused climate change is also in the spotlight, the expression "reduce greenhouse gases" is added to the black list and in favor of renaming it to say "generate organic soil or increase efficiency in the use of nutrients ». Meanwhile, the phrase like "carbon removal or reduction" is dropped and replaced with something like "generate organic soil, or build - contribute organic matter to the soil."
In that email dated February 16 of this year, Director Moebius-Clune explains to the workers that “We are not going to change the model, we are just going to change how we talk about it. There are many benefits to putting coal into circulation, climate change mitigation is there ».
Other emails show discussions among staff unsure of what is prohibited. On February 16, a staff member named Tim Hafner wrote directly to Bramblett… "I would like to know the correct terms to use in place of climate change and anything to do with carbon… I want to make sure I incorporate the correct terminology that the agency has approved."
A document that comes to light when Donald Trump has refused to link the last devastating hurricanes with climate change and has affirmed that the country has suffered "bigger storms" than "Harvey" or "Irma" in the first half of the 20th century.
While Trump takes incomprehensible measures in favor of reducing the environment, for example NASA, gives us a new video that shows us the worrying speed at which the planet is increasing the temperature.
And although Trump is committed to his policies of wear and tear in the face of climate change, not all administrations follow the same trail. If we look at the following map. 12 states and Puerto Rico have become members of the Climate Alliance for the United States (Color green) and remain committed to reducing CO2 emissions. Officials from 10 states and the District of Columbia have pledged to follow the Paris Agreement (Color Blue), but have not formally joined the alliance. And throughout the country, 274 cities have signed the treaty of the National Climate Action Agenda of Mayors, with the commitment to reduce emissions at the local level.
We remember that we already talked about Donald Trump's policies on renewables and we even provided 7 Graphs that show that Trump will not be able to with renewables even though he is determined to favor fossil fuels.
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