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Top science adviser to Trump resigns over his Charlottesville response with letter containing secret message Top science adviser to Trump resigns over his Charlottesville response with letter containing secret message
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Yet another science advisor has resigned from the administration of Donald Trump, this time over the President's comments in response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yet another science advisor has resigned from the administration of Donald Trump, this time over the President's comments in response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. 
Dr Daniel M Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California-Berkeley, had been serving as the Science Envoy to the US State Department. Dr Daniel M Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California-Berkeley, had been serving as the Science Envoy to the US State Department. 
He cited a variety of reasons including Mr Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, an accord signed by nearly 200 countries in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help poorer countries adapt to an already-changed planet.  He was appointed in 2010 as the very first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) Fellow at the agency. 
Mr Kammen posted his resignation letter on Twitter. The first letters of each paragraph read: "IMPEACH," his apparent message about Mr Trump's presidency.   
More follows... Mr Trump's response to the violence was to blame "many sides" for the violence and death of counter-protester Heather Heyer and Virginia State Police officers Berke MM Bates and H Jay Cullen. 
He appeared to walk that initial statement back by condemning the neo-Nazi, Klu Klux Klan, and white supremacists present at the protests but quickly doubled down on it, adding that there were "very bad" people on both sides.
He said there were "innocent" people on the side of protesters attempting to keep the Civil War statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee, whose pro-slavery side lost in the bloodiest war in American history. 
"Particularly troubling to me is how your response to Charlottesville is consistent with a broader pattern of behaviour that enables sexism and racism and disregards the welfare of all Americans," wrote Mr Kammen.
He posted his resignation letter on Twitter. The first letters of each paragraph read: "IMPEACH," his apparent message about Mr Trump's presidency. 
Mr Kammen cited a variety of reasons including Mr Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, an accord signed by nearly 200 countries in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help poorer countries adapt to an already-changed planet. 
He wrote that the President's "decision to abdicate the leadership opportunities and job creation benefits" of the Paris Agreement are "not acceptable". 
Many experts have argued against Mr Trump's claim that the global accord puts American workers at an "economic disadvantage". 
Mr Kammen also cited a warning from President Dwight D Eisenhower that a people "that values its privileges above principles soon loses both". 
Several scientific advisors have resigned or been pushed out from the Environmental Protection Agency as well over what they think of as the anti-science politics of Mr Trump and agency head Scott Pruitt. 
CEOs have also resigned from White House business councils over the President's response to Charlottesville as well as the entire Presidential Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, who resigned with a letter forming the message "RESIST" with the first letter of each paragraph.