'Blatant manipulation': Trump administration exploited wildfire science to promote logging
Revealed: emails show Trump and appointees tried to craft a narrative that forest protection efforts are responsible for wildfires
Emily Holden and Jimmy Tobias
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Political appointees at the interior department have sought to play up climate pollution from California wildfires while downplaying emissions from fossil fuels as a way of promoting more logging in the nation’s forests, internal emails obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The messaging plan was crafted in support of Donald Trump’s pro-industry arguments for harvesting more timber in California, which he says would thin forests and prevent fires – a point experts refute.
The emails show officials seeking to estimate the carbon emissions from devastating 2018 fires in California so they could compare them to the carbon footprint of the state’s electricity sector and then publish statements encouraging cutting down trees.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/24/trump-administration-wildfire-science-promote-logging-california-emissions?CMP=share_btn_tw
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