Sonny Perdue was well chosen by President Donald Trump to be Agriculture Secretary. As part of Perdue's efforts to put our agricultural house in order, he has succeeded in filling the upper echelon of the agency with straight shooters. However, below the surface, the agency remains heavily influenced by misguided scientists promoting the mistake that life as we know it is being destroyed through the use of our fossil fuels.
They do this by spreading falsehoods about agriculture being severely diminished by rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). This, despite the fact that CO2 is the gas that keeps plants alive just as oxygen keeps us alive.