State Department science envoy leaves a hidden message while resigning after Trump’s Charlottesville comments

Daniel Kammen, who serves as a distinguished professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, posted his letter on Twitter and said Trump’s response to the events in Charlottesville “enables racism, sexism, and harms our country and planet.”

“Examples of this destructive pattern have consequences on my duties as Science Envoy,” Kammen wrote in his letter. “Your decision to abdicate the leadership opportunities and the job creation benefits of the Paris Climate Accord, and to undermine energy and environmental research are not acceptable to me.

“Acts and words mater. To continue in my role under your administration would be inconsistent with the principles of the United States Oath of Allegiance to which I adhere.”

Kammen said the president’s actions thus far have “harmed the quality of life in the United States, our standing abroad, and the sustainability of the planet.”

In his resignation letter, Kammen included a subtle message to the president: The first letter of each paragraph of the note spells “IMPEACH.”

The hidden message from Kammen comes after the remaining members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned en masse Friday morning and included in their letter to Trump the word “RESIST,” the rallying cry of the president’s opponents.

Kammen is one of seven scientists and engineers named science envoys under the State Department’s Science Envoy Program. He has served in positions at the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the State Department.

Eleven others have served as previous science envoys.