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July 11, 2019

State Department Analyst Resigns in Protest of White House Censorship of Climate Testimony
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A senior State Department intelligence analyst has resigned in protest
after the Trump administration blocked parts of his written testimony to
Congress about the dangers of climate change. In June, analyst Rod
Schoonover was permitted to appear before the House Intelligence
Committee to testify about the national security risks posed by global
warming, but the White House barred him from submitting peer-reviewed
scientific journal articles and intelligence reports as evidence to back
his claims. Part of his censored testimony to Congress read: "Absent
extensive mitigating factors or events, we see few plausible future
scenarios where significant-possibly catastrophic-harm does not arise
from the compounded effects of climate change."


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