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It's officially hurricane season plus it's that time of year when a lot of people headed national parks on their vacations so we're updating the show from earlier this year it's about the suppression of science especially climate change science and federal agencies reveals use government data to make maps of future flooding at 10 popular u.s. Parks new coastlines our science reporter Elizabeth Shogun is with me Elizabeth l.o.l. Ok so let's look at some of these maps this one is the National Mall in Washington d.c. That's what the mall looks like now but take the cursor and swipe left Ok so I'm seeing the Martin Luther King Memorial the Vietnam wall are submerged the Washington Monument is is just a little island surrounded by water and the coastline now goes right up against the Pentagon this is what the mall would look like in 2050 if the East Coast gets hit with a Category 3 hurricane this is from National Park Service projections and Al you're from Florida right yeah check out the map for Everglades National Park here it is today Ok so the water is all around the tip of Florida and this is what it could look like in 2050 after a Category 5 hurricane the tip of Florida is gone it's like the coastline has has come up significantly these maps show what could happen if greenhouse gas emissions keep rising the problem is research like this has had a tough time under President scientists working for the government have been ignored or attacked they've been defunded or even censored let me tell you the story of what happened to one particular scientist Maria Caffery Maria fascinates me because so many things about her are unexpected she's got this career dedicated to u.s. National parks but she grew up in a gritty neighborhood in London she raced cars for fun I grew up in by Heathrow airport so it was airplanes and. So congestion and stuff like that so I mean that's why I go into environmental science it was just so foreign to me I was like wow I'd love to have a job or a actually get to go out and be in nature that's a little bit different She's an idealist she picked climate change because she hoped her science would have a positive impact on the world under President Obama addressing climate change was a top priority so being a climate scientist was kind of like being an astronaut in the 1960 s. That's when President Kennedy challenged Americans to beat the Soviet Union to the moon in 2012 Maria launched her big mission to come up with estimates of how much flooding could be expected in national parks because of climate change it was heavy stuff she was a University of Colorado scientist contracted by the National Park Service She just started on this work when New York got hammered by Hurricane Sandy Sandy has killed more than 90 people in 10 states even the dark on Liberty Island has been washed away the Statue of Liberty is off limits because the island on which it stands was damaged by rising floodwaters a Lady Liberty her not even a party Rangers could get there but Maria was still in her pj's when her phone ring at home early that morning park rangers urgently needed her estimate of how high floodwaters had gotten at the Statue of Liberty she crunched the numbers in about an hour and got her estimate to park managers but she felt part should have had that kind of information long before storms hit it's really important to have that information. Before that storm ever happens when a storm is coming in park star are scrambling to get ready for the storm right so they can't sit on a phone call or scientists. It took a long time for years for Maria to calculate the risks for 118 national parks that are exposed to rising sea finally in the autumn of 2016. She was getting ready to publish she gave park managers a preview in a web an hour it is. Today. And the. Project I'm working on a long time great Maria told National Park staff she had projections of how much water levels will rise at each park 520-302-0502 extension 100 if people reduce greenhouse gas emissions and if they don't and if a major storm hit what would happen if. She showed the park staffers from Washington d.c. Getting slammed by a Category 2 hurricane in 2100 the entire National Mall is shaded blue it's all under water the Natural History Museum the White House visitors center even the Environmental Protection Agency a lot of flooding taking place here branching out or around. The location. Manager seemed eager for this information Maria told them her research would be published soon in 2017 but before that could happen Donald Trump was elected. He announced the u.s. Would exit the Paris climate change treaty he started rolling back policies clean power plan auto emissions standards. Lots of people worried about the fate of science and the Tramp. Enormous crowds marched across the country in defense of science. Maria was she worried about her research but her supervisors reassured her that her science was safe I had heard that we should not let politics interfere with our work which is the way of always conducted myself the Park Service had already edited her report and sent it out for peer review and I was told it was locked from editing which meant it was going to be released any day now it was imminent press releases were drafted to send to the media this is May 2017 they were about to publish and then. Something came up and they chose to delay the delay seemed temporary and then I was notified again in September that they wanted to release it but then hurricane Harvey hit Texas followed by Irma and Maria pummeling the Caribbean in Florida and they didn't release it after all Maria was left guessing why the repeated delays were frustrating for her but she was distracted by another big project she gave birth to her 1st child at the end of December 2017 and went on maternity leave Ok so we're up to 2018 trust Impreza for more than a year and this report still hasn't been released Yeah that's a long delay I got curious if her research was getting ensnared by the trumpet administration I emailed a Park Service spokesman who said the report was still an internal review so I filed public records requests with the Park Service and the University of Colorado Maria's home base the Park Service stalled but the university responded pretty quickly and gave me 18 different drafts of the report dating from August 26th teen to March 28th 18 different drafts What did you find there had been lots of changes the early drafts had many references to humans causing climate change and flooding the national parks then about a year after Trump became president after the report had been considered final for months the changes started showing up. Park officials commented that this was really unusual for instance the 1st sentence of the executive summary read anthropogenic climate change presents challenges to national park managers anthropogenic meaning humans write it's the scientific term for people causing something a version from January 28000 dropped the word anthropogenic and other references to people causing climate change I could see that those changes were made by a Park Service spokesman and the head of the park services Climate Change Response Program that's the part of the park service that's supposed to help parks get ready for climate change they'd scrubbed the report of all mentions of humans causing climate change an email exchange showed their boss had just communicated his quote anthropogenic concerns I called Maria and told her about the drafts I'd seen. What do we have to report. Without any reference to the human causes of climate change I'd be very disappointed if there were words that will being attributed to me that I didn't write so you under any pressure. To delete or from your report that you think are important to have in your report. I. Don't really want to get into that today. Maria sounds very nervous there do you know why she's afraid maybe this research that's consumed 5 years of her life might never see the light of day after this you wrote a story for reveal about how Maria's report was altered and it got a lot of attention so today the nonprofit investigative journalism organization reveal came out with a stunning report that official this is m s n b c dozens of news organizations picked up the story much as members of Congress called on the Interior Department's inspector general to investigate human the park service as part of the Interior which Interior Department told reveal that no one was available to comment but Secretary sinky must be shocked to learn this because those edits were made just one month before he was on Capitol Hill testifying under oath I don't know of any document we've changed and I challenge you any member to find a document that we've actually changed that a report. Was defensive and declared his department would never alter science he was forced to resign in December under accusations that he used his office for personal financial gain but several months earlier just after my story came out he was on Capitol Hill answering questions about it nobody no political has ever seen that document and I haven't seen the docket so I want to best occasion how that document got around to the press before even we had a chance to look at it I think that's fair. Focused on the leaks to the media not his department's violation of a basic principle of civil society scientific integrity Democratic congresswoman Shelley pin grief from Maine was seated across from him she wasn't convinced Can you assure me that you are not going to deny any references to climate change and that you will allow for the inclusion in documents from the Department of Interior that have humor. An impact on climate change if it's a scientific report. I'm not going to change or come up. Last May I went to Denver to visit Maria I wanted her to tell me her version of the story and compare it to what he had said on Capitol Hill we sat in our small backyard in the warm afternoon sun So how long have you lived here we just kind of moved in I was pregnant and it was like we need to find a proper house for a baby so you've been through a lot in the last few months childbirth and. That part was all right about its bright back but her life is still topsy turvy because of her troubles with the Park Service I was so proud of my work with the national parks and helping to be part of America's legacy and now it's kind of like well what's the point she grimaces it's been a turbulent few months there's been sleepless nights because of a baby and then there's been sleepless nights because of some of the West times of my career. Maria rejected the edits to her report several times but then she was called to Park Service offices in Fort Collins Colorado for a meeting with the big boss from Washington. Lawyer told her not to tell me any names but e-mails I got from the Park Service show she's talking about race. He's the head of natural resources and science for the park's 700 scientists and other staff are under him he wouldn't do an interview with me but here he is giving a big speech at u.c.l.a. And 2017 it is my responsibility to the American public to make sure that we and they have the best information to make the most effective decisions about how we understand to protect our resources this. Greater public good it is a responsibility to do good science and to support scientists Savage's said but Maria felt attacked not supported during her meeting this spring with savage Oh 1st she started telling him about her report and that's when he interrupted and said I have some reports here Maria says Savage you held a stack of papers and told her they were recent reports by another government agency they concern climate change but there's no reference to the human causes of climate change he wanted to know why Maria had to mention humans if government scientists who wrote the other reports didn't and that's when he started smacking the table with the papers and saying but these reports don't have these terms in it it kind of escalated from there he raised his voice a lot Maria says he suggested he might lose his job if she didn't agree to the edits and who do you think that going to replace me with the Fink they're going to be as nice you as I am and then suggesting that. The Climate Change Response Program in general could disappear if I chose to keep these words in the report salvia wasn't the only one pressuring Maria another Park Service official told her in a telephone call that anthropogenic and human activities were banned words at the Interior Department under President Trump that official warned Maria the report might never be released unless she agreed to the edits Maria says a 3rd official took her on a walk to try to persuade her it's different kinds of bullying and pressure from different people even people Maria had worked with for years you know people saying that they could lose their jobs and please think that I've got children Maria I've got children the implying I should be thinking of their kids it was a lot of pressure to make changes. If one person says one thing and then another person says another thing after a while it really starts to build up and it becomes an absolute. Melt In what's that look I see on your face. I just see disappointment these people I held him very highly esteemed people who I've really respected to. Catch them in some instances. Telling mistruths or misleading statements and sometimes frankly just flat out lying. It's wrong. This is very disappointing because it's not the Park Service that I feel I work for . A tissue. It's not just Maria being emotional and more than that the edits that I was being asked to make violated the scientific integrity policy in my opinion. The Park Services scientific integrity policy forbids decision makers from altering scientific work through quote coercive manipulation censorship or other misconduct Maria kept rejecting the edits her supervisors wanted her to make the Park Service didn't publish without her Ok maybe because the University of Colorado stepped in to assert her intellectual property rights under her contract or maybe because they knew reveal was watching and so were the senators and representatives who demanded an investigation the Park Service appointed a mediator the guy said to me if we couldn't agree then the report would be released in a format that he would not tell me. And without my name on it it was certainly a technique to. Encouraged me to make it so I was not comfortable with if I felt very timid dated. 7 that's baby Catherine her dad just brought her home trying to you know. Maria's focus shifts to the future she's working under a new contract with the park service until February but not on climate change and she's earning a lot less money what I'm making right now doesn't even pay my daycare for my baby so there's certainly a lot of Why am I doing next. I'm hoping the long term it will work out. At least want to see an example of someone planning. Some point it's going to get bullied or she's going to get pressure put on her and so I want to see someone standing up to bullies. Right. A Park Service spokesman tried to explain away the edits and the harassment as a normal dispute among co-authors to Park Service officials are named as co-authors on the report but we sued the Park Service under the Freedom of Information Act They finally gave us thousands of pages of documents they back up Maria's story they show her rejecting edits repeatedly over months and fighting for her science it's clear from the documents that Ray Savage from the Park Service interfered but there were lots of lines and paragraphs redacted whole pages blacked out so it's not clear how far up the Department of Interior is chain of command the censorship went essentially I feel like I've been shut out from my project it certainly feels like the. Playing a role in this. She was told to stop working on a website she designed for the Park Service. How much flooding would come from sea level rise of particular parks because of climate change. What happened to that project after our break. Even heart. Charles on July 21st at the. Heart along with. The Charles memorial July 21st at the. From the Center for Investigative Reporting and. This is revealed. Today we're bringing back a show we aired earlier this year we just heard about Mesnil Park Service officials trying to censor climate change science they pressured a researcher to get her to changes to her report but she refuse. Is our science reporter who broke the story about what was happening to a scientist. Elizabeth what happened next well after all the attention the censorship got the Park Service published report almost exactly the way she wrote it. And I felt very strongly that these words had to remain and by staying on that then they decided they were sick of fighting. The Park Service posted the report without any fanfare but it didn't post the data that went with it or an idea Maria came up with to help parks and ordered. 3 people visualize the threat it's an interactive website i Report doesn't do it justice right you can use words to describe it but a picture paid to. The web site with a Park Service employees or anyone really see with their own eyes which shorelines merinos monuments are archaeological digs could be underwater in 2050 or $2100.00 it would be a really powerful tool for helping people see how dangerous climate change really is to places Americans love their national parks Maria built it with Park Service computer experts they worked on it for years and did you see the website when you went to Colorado to talk to Maria Well that was the plan that's not exactly what happened here's how it went. Maria takes me to the University of Colorado Boulder we walk into this building and stop at a map to find the conference room where we're supposed to meet her college I have 3 degrees of geography and I. Call someone who gives her step by step instructions to the route Ok well I'll be there in a minute. Ok She introduces me to her colleagues and starts the meeting with a surprise announcement Well they were going to demo the sea level rise be aware so I saw permission from the National Park Servi