Posted on 07/10/2019 1:51:36 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A State Department analyst has resigned after White House officials blocked his written testimony to a congressional panel citing evidence that climate change poses a national security threat, according to Wednesday reports.
The analyst, Rod Schoonover, resigned in protest and Friday will be his last day, according to State Department officials who spoke to The Wall Street Journal.
Schoonover declined to comment to the paper.
The Hill has reached out to the State Department and the White House for comment.
In June, The Washington Post reported White House officials blocked portions of Schoonover's prepared statement to a House Intelligence Committee that mentioned human-caused climate change could be "possibly catastrophic." The cuts were reportedly due to comments not matching the Trump administration's official stance.
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is inviting Schoonover to return to the committee, "to shed light on alleged efforts to censor his written testimony," according to a statement shared with the Journal.
Schoonover has been with the department for almost ten years, according to his LinkedIn profile.
In his 12-page prepared testimony, reviewed by The Washington Post, Schoonover detailed how rising greenhouse gas emissions raise global temperatures and acidify oceans.
President Trump has publicly downplayed - and outright denied - the existence of climate change, at one point suggesting it was a hoax invented by the Chinese. In 2017, he pulled the U.S. out of the international Paris climate accord.
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Good one less dummy we have to pay..
Good news. Another climate terrorist is unemployed!
Friday? March his ass out right now.
How about that. It’s already causing job loss.
+1
If climate change was real they would be going after the worst polluters. They are no...case closed
He looks like a complete twerp,
The Kenyan from Indonesia stuffed our government full of true believers.
Oops! I forgot - they are exempt. The two most polluted countries in the world get a pass.
If Climate Change is so serious, why do they get a pass?
I am sure it’s no big loss and we are better off without him.
Too bad. So sad. Don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out. Good luck with your new position at the DNC!
I’m surely he’ll be deeply missed.
If we could only get the rest of them to resign.
The Democrats are so in charge in D.C. he will be replaced by another. America’s only chance is for Trump to declare Marshal Law. That would probably start a Civil War but America cannot keep going down this same immoral road. I am 80 years old and would gladly sacrifice myself for those younger folks and my remaining family to be saved from this that is waiting us. A Civil War or only God can prevent it.
Oh, BS
He was going to be fire so, he contrived an excuse for resigning
Maybe Fake News CNN is hiring
Climate change is a Russian hoax, started by Vladimir Putin to weaken the West.
Hey, ditto’s. I am 65 and see no other viable options.
“President Trump has publicly downplayed - and outright denied - the existence of climate change, at one point suggesting it was a hoax invented by the Chinese. In 2017, he pulled the U.S. out of the international Paris climate accord.”
President Trump is right again.
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