Agriculture Department Buries Studies Showing Dangers of Climate Change

CLICK HERE - U.S. Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service - Agriculture and Climate Change

The Trump administration has stopped promoting government-funded research into how higher temperatures can damage crops and pose health risks.

politico.com - by HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH - June 23, 2019

The Trump administration has refused to publicize dozens of government-funded studies that carry warnings about the effects of climate change, defying a longstanding practice of touting such findings by the Agriculture Department’s acclaimed in-house scientists.

The studies range from a groundbreaking discovery that rice loses vitamins in a carbon-rich environment — a potentially serious health concern for the 600 million people world-wide whose diet consists mostly of rice — to a finding that climate change could exacerbate allergy seasons to a warning to farmers about the reduction in quality of grasses important for raising cattle.

All of these studies were peer-reviewed by scientists and cleared through the non-partisan Agricultural Research Service, one of the world’s leading sources of scientific information for farmers and consumers.

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