Lewis Ziska, one of the top climate scientists in the US has quit the US Department of Agriculture and says he’s protesting the Trump administration’s attempts to bury one of his studies.
The study was about how rice loses nutrients due to the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere which has implications for the 600 million people who depend on rice for most of their caloric intake.
Ziska says that the Trump administration questioned the findings of his research and attempted to minimise press coverage and stated that he gets the sense that the USDA is no longer a place for exploring things that don’t agree with someone’s political views.