Heartland Hack Will Lead President Shitstain's Transition At NOAA

President Donald Trump is taking aim at one of the federal government’s main agencies for climate change research – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – and NOAA employees are girding for drastic changes in how they conduct science and report it to the public.

Trump has appointed a leading denier of climate change, Kenneth Haapala of the Heartland Institute, to serve on the administration team handling appointments for the U.S. Department of Commerce, the federal agency that oversees NOAA. Haapala will be in a position to help choose top administrators at NOAA, an agency that conducts atmospheric research and, among other duties, also oversees the National Weather Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

One NOAA employee said he and many of his colleagues are alarmed by Haapala’s selection. “NOAA doesn’t get as much attention as EPA, but it is a pretty big target for people that want to shut down climate change science and findings they find objectionable,” said the employee, who didn’t want his name used for fear of retribution.

Haapala, who has a master of sciences in economics, is a policy expert at Heartland, a Chicago-based group that describes itself as promoting policy “based on individual liberty, limited government, and free markets.” In 2012, the Economist described it as “the world’s most prominent thinktank supporting skepticism about man-made climate change,” a label that Heartland promotes on part of its web site. That same year, Heartland gained notoriety by buying billboards that showed images of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, along with headlines such as, “I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?”

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