they do not want to be part of the study like that. a climb toll gist from the national mitigation center said he wouldn t be comfortable participating it or sending a study like that to his fell lowe scientists. the nebraska state climate toll gists, the guy who is the climb toll gist for the state said i don t want my name being on something being used as a political pawning. that was the theme last week in nebraska. the states s own scientists saying in effect leave us out of this nonscience fake science thing that you re doing. that study, such as it is, will go forward, re if it s not clear what exactly it will study now. the lawmaker who first called for climate change, the guy who got radially tall tered he himself is a scientist, he also i should tell you just happens to have invented a new kind of
really studying how the climate is changing. they do not want to be part of the study like that. a climb toll gist from the national mitigation center said he wouldn t be comfortable participating it or sending a study like that to his fell lowe scientists. the nebraska state climate toll gists, the guy who is the climb toll gist for the state said i don t want my name being on something being used as a political pawning. that was the theme last week in nebraska. the states s own scientists saying in effect ollleave us ouf this nonscience fake science thing that you re doing. that study, such as it is, will go forward, re if it s not clear what exactly it will study now. the lawmaker who first called for climate change, the guy who
they all sit together and they re all senators. that has not opened the way for science free from politics. by the time this bill had passed about studying the effects of climate change in the state, it only had to be about close cyclical climate change, not that it s getting warm, but just that we re going through some ups and downs. nebraska conservatives have stripped the climate change study to the point that nebraska scientists are now saying that they do not want to take part in this study. it s not clear anymore it s not really studying how the climate is changing. they do not want to be part of the study like that. a climb toll gist from the national mitigation center said
more than half of our country, counties in 26 states have declared disaster areas. look at all those red spots on that screen there. crops are drying out, lake beds drying out and ranchers are selling off herds of cattle as green fields wither. joining me now is chief climb toll gist for climate central, she s also the author of the book the weather of the future. it makes me afraid to ask, because it seems of course heidi that every year, people ask is this the direction? look at what s happening here, these extremes and now this heat this season. farmers were incredibly hopeful back in march, because the summer is a story of moving from heaven to hell, farmers planted more corn than they ever had since the 1930s, commodity prices were high, march was mild, they planted early, the usda forecast a bumper crop. 15 billion bushels of corn and