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EPA removes climate change information

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Reminds me of one of Peter Norvig's "Plot Synopses for Episodes of a Gilligan’s Island Remake Starring Members of the Bush Administration" for McSweeney's Internet Tendency

"The professor’s experiments conclusively show that climate change is causing the island to sink into the sea. Gilligan erases his papers and tries to stop him from talking, thinking that will make the problem go away."

This should be retitled to "EPA shifts priority and retains only an archive of climate change information" (linked on that page to https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange_.html). Yes, President Trump does not care about climate change--we all know that. But we should be saving our outrage and upvotes for situations where it is actually warranted.

The title of this submission is blatantly false. Of the three sentences on that page, one deals exclusively with linking to a copy of the information.

They will likely remove that link soon. That the page and all it's contents are no longer on the main site means the title is pretty much accurate.

Agreed, "archives" would have been a better choice.

It's interesting, the new President seems to be able to reverse himself on many issues after discussing them with bureaucrats/foreign policy/trade experts. I wonder who among his administration could convince him to change his mind here.

I'm still not convinced it's not an act. The guy would have to be unusually dense to govern with ignorance of both a priori and a posteriori knowledge. The greenhouse effect was discovered over 100 years ago, not placed on a napkin as a hunch in a bar 10 years ago.

It’s hard to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.

– Upton Sinclair

I think you are vastly underestimating the capacity of (near)human beings to be completely fucking stupid and delusional.

Many of his base don't believe in global warming, or if they do that it's big problem, or that it's too costly to fix. Skip to about 6 minutes in of this TED talk to get an idea on how some people think about climate change:

https://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioriti...

It's not a big deal

Right, but they were also big on several of the isolationist policies that he seems to be quickly doing a ctrl-Z on.

The same things that make you laugh make you cry.

http://i.imgur.com/a7lHIaV.gif

In a few years republicans will be complaining that democrats are manipulating the data.

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