Trump Department of Agriculture Buries Climate-Change Studies on Carbon Dioxide

We keep Politico's nom de snarkstashed away for use only on special occasions here in the shebeen. This is because the publication has cleaned up quite a bit of its act since the day when the Two Presiding Geniuses left to launch their next project. For example, Politico has been doing quite a good job keeping track of the mischief being done at the Cabinet level by All The Best People hired by Camp Runamuck through its oh-so-rigorous vetting process.

On Monday, Politicobrought us a report about how this mischief is crippling our response to the great existential crisis of our time, namely, by burying any mention of the effects of the climate crisis on American agriculture—or, to use its brand name, food.

The people most directly affected by these phenomena know what's going on. No matter if you're a farmer in Nebraska, or a rancher in Colorado, or a longline skipper from Massachusetts, you know that something screwy is going on with the climate because you're right in the middle of it and it's costing you money.

As Jane Fleming Kleeb, the Nebraska state Democratic chairman, put it in a recent op-ed:

The key to developing a strong enough policy to confront the crisis and to do so within a democratic republic—if such a thing is possible, and I'm not sure it is—is to make sure that all the people most directly affected by it have enough information to connect the damage that is being done to their livelihoods to the crisis itself. The climate crisis has to be demystified for those farmers and ranchers and fisherfolk. This, it seems, is something this administration is consciously trying to avoid.

Good thing, too. Because, when Washington is underwater, we're going to have to move the capitol to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, anyway.

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Source: Esquire.com

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