The climate scientist on leaving the US to work in France – with funding from President Macron – and why she believes Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris agreement will backfire on himCamille Parmesan,a biologist at the universities of Texas and Plymouth, is one of the world’s most influential climate change scientists, and having shown how butterflies and other species are affected by it across all continents. She is one of 18 US scientists moving to France to take up President Macron’s invitation of refuge after Donald Trump’s decision to carve science funding and withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris agreement.
What has made you leave the US?
The impact of Trump on climate science has been far greater than what the public believe it has. He has not only slashed funding,but he’s gone on the attack in any way he can with his powers as the president. University researchers are buffered from this, but scientists working at government agencies own really felt the blow. They own been muffled and not allowed to speak freely with the press, or they own had their reports altered to remove “climate change” from the text,and are being told to leave climate change out of future reports and funding proposals. This degrades the entire climate science community. Scientists are fighting back, but Congress needs to exercise its constitutional powers and keep the executive branch in check. This is not a partisan issue – this is approximately the future of America.
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Source: guardian.co.uk