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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administration removes links to taxpayer-funded climate data on USGS website
In its relatively short time in power, the Trump administration has made no attempt to hide its disdain for studying, communicating, and acting on the threat posed by climate change. Rather than simply ignore the scientific information and research accessible to the public, however, the administration instead has chosen to remove climate data and references to climate change from government websites.
In the process, theyve gone to shocking and distressing levels to hide the truth from the American public who, it must be remembered, funded all this research as climate scientist Peter Gleick explained to ThinkProgress. (You can find numerous examples of disappearing data from the EPA to the Bureau of Land Management to the Energy Department here.)
Of course, this ongoing effort to make climate change disappear doesnt alter the reality of human-caused climate change and the dire consequences of President Donald Trumps effort to undermine domestic and global climate action. But that doesnt stop Trump appointees from even the most pointless efforts to suppress the facts or make them harder for the public to find.
Consider the U.S. Geological Surveys Science Explorer website, which the agencys homepage explains is where the public can go to learn more about our science through a guided topical exploration. If you visit that site, and click on climate change here is what you see:
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-officials-erase-climate-data-2a4e4fe81f96/
This is just plain BS....................I and everyone else have a right to know this information...............look no further than Arctic and Florida, Virgin Islands for example
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)by sycophants who will enforce that dictatorship.
This has already happened, done, over.
Even Mueller can do little about it because of pardon power, either Schneiderman gets him or you best get used to this, big time, and MUCH worse.
Wanna hear something even more shocking, right in front of your EYES we are being taken over by a dictator and yet in 2018 we will have almost no increase in voter turnout, which proves that we dont deserve to survive.
Either we see a shocking increase in voter turnout in 2018 voting AGAINST the Nazis, or we deserve to be taken over by them.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I would call it a semi-dictatorship or a pre-dictatorship because not allthe plugs on democracy have been pulled yet.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)for this data, and we should have access.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)Even if you don't believe in them
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)that are stupid and pliable do now.
Me.
(35,454 posts)At 10 AM the Saturday before inauguration day, on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania, roughly 60 hackers, scientists, archivists, and librarians were hunched over laptops, drawing flow charts on whiteboards, and shouting opinions on computer scripts across the room. They had hundreds of government web pages and data sets to get through before the end of the dayall strategically chosen from the pages of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationany of which, they felt, might be deleted, altered, or removed from the public domain by the incoming Trump administration.
Their undertaking, at the time, was purely speculative, based on travails of Canadian government scientists under the Stephen Harper administration, which muzzled them from speaking about climate change. Researchers watched as Harper officials threw thousands of books of aquatic data into dumpsters as federal environmental research libraries closed.
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/rogue-scientists-race-save-climate-data-trump/
Scientists are scrambling to download troves of climate data collected by government agencies that they fear could disappear under a Trump administration, according to Motherboard and The Washington Post. Efforts include saving the data on independent servers and making it available on websites. The concern is that once Donald Trump becomes president and takes control of the .gov websites hosting climate data collected by agencies like NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that data could be whitewashed or made inaccessible.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/13/13937938/climate-change-data-download-government-websites-donald-trump
On Saturday morning, the white stone buildings on UC Berkeleys campus radiated with unfiltered sunshine. The sky was blue, the campanile was chiming. But instead of enjoying the beautiful day, 200 adults had willingly sardined themselves into a fluorescent-lit room in the bowels of Doe Library to rescue federal climate data.
Like similar groups across the countryin more than 20 citiesthey believe that the Trump administration might want to disappear this data down a memory hole. So these hackers, scientists, and students are collecting it to save outside government servers.
But now theyre going even further. Groups like DataRefuge and the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which organized the Berkeley hackathon to collect data from NASAs earth sciences programs and the Department of Energy, are doing more than archiving. Diehard coders are building robust systems to monitor ongoing changes to government websites. And theyre keeping track of whats been removedto learn exactly when the pruning began.
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/diehard-coders-just-saved-nasas-earth-science-data/
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)wanted saved before he left office because he was afraid it would be destroyed once Trump was in office. I forget the other areas. I remember they cross-indexed some information so that if his administration found it and destroyed it, they would have another archive with the numbers they needed to access the information. Just can't pull that out of my brain, right now.
Me.
(35,454 posts)I just don't have a link
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)I'm faxing my reps now using Resistbot. I'm so sick of this. They won't allow the CDC to speak to journalists. Now this. My taxes pay for this information. It's taxation without representation to gerrymander, suppress votes, and assault the process. I'm seriously ready to take to the streets today. And the orangutan in the Oval calling out the "Rocket Man" in front of the UNGA was the end. Oh, and Graham-Cassidy. I'm stroking out.
DK504
(3,847 posts)on the same area. Another 500 year storm 2 weeks after the first 500 year storm, a couple of years after another 500 year storm, of course there was the 500 year storm that ripped the East Coast apart. But hey, who cares right? This isn't going to happen in another 500 years.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)defund research, block the Internet, scream, kick the wall....
But you can't make the facts go away. They will always be there. There will always be a way to get the truth and the data out there.
It's already a done deal.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)at all of our own peril.