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EPA removes climate change information

53 points| philngo | 9 years ago |epa.gov

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[+] CriticalSection|9 years ago|reply
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."

[+] FTA|9 years ago|reply
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.
[+] sb057|9 years ago|reply
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.
[+] philngo|9 years ago|reply
Agreed, "archives" would have been a better choice.
[+] azinman2|9 years ago|reply
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.
[+] wyldfire|9 years ago|reply
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.
[+] angstrom|9 years ago|reply
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.