Is The Trump Administrations Federal Website Purge a Modern Day Nazi Book Burning?

[TomCADem]

In the 1930s, the Nazi conducted ceremonial book burnings. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, pacifist, Religious, classical liberal, anarchist, socialist, and communist authors, among others:

Last month, a meteorologist explained why he was trying to preserve federal climate data before Trump takes office in the Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/13/why-im-trying-to-preserve-federal-climate-data-before-trump-takes-office/?utm_term=.b9ee14e410a8

President-elect Donald Trump has been a purveyor of conspiracy theories when it comes to climate science for years. He’s called human-caused climate change a Chinese hoax and refused to acknowledge the existence of the California drought, promising farmers there that, as president, he would “open up the water.” He’s vowed to eliminate the EPA and the Energy Department and “cancel” the Paris Agreement.

Since the election, Trump has been relentlessly converting those anti-science messages into action, wrongly believing that doubling down on fossil fuel production will help boost long-term economic growth. (That Trump’s pick for secretary of state — ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson — is among the least extreme of his appointments is chilling.)

According to a Sierra Club report, when he assumes the presidency on Jan. 20, Trump will be the only head of state in the world to deny mainstream climate science — and yes, that even includes Kim Jong Un of North Korea.

In recent weeks, by surrounding himself with outspoken allies of the fossil fuel industry, promising cuts to NASA’s earth science research and sending a threatening questionnaire to Energy Department staff, there is no remaining doubt that Trump is serious about overtly declaring war on science. This isn’t a presidential transition. It’s an Inquisition. It’s a 21st-century book burning.

These fears turned out to be prophetic as the Trump administration has begun a campaign of deleting climate data from federal websites, as well as other data deemed liberal or subversive.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-climatechange-idUSKBN15906G

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly minted leadership to erase ex-President Barack Obama's climate change initiatives.

The employees were notified by EPA officials on Tuesday that the administration had instructed EPA's communications team to remove the website's climate change page, which contains links to scientific global warming research, as well as detailed data on emissions. The page could go down as early as Wednesday, the sources said.

"If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear," one of the EPA staffers told Reuters, who added some employees were scrambling to save some of the information housed on the website, or convince the Trump administration to preserve parts of it.

The sources asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

[2naSalit]

1. To me it is....nt

[TomCADem]

8. Also at the U.S. Holocaust Museum is This Poster

[TeamPooka]

2. yup

[ProudProgressiveNow]

3. K&R nt

[C Moon]

4. Then let's bring the print world back!

Newspapers, books, pamphlets, mailings...

[TomCADem]

6. Well, to Update, They Could Burn Flash Drives and CD-Roms...

...but I think the toxic fumes could put a damper on the Nazi-like bonfire. Otherwise, I am sure we would have had the Young Republicans host such an event by now.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. yeppers .

[TrekLuver]

7. Well they can try but they will not destroy the information or the facts. It may get obscured for

awhile but the truth and facts are and will be preserved. They will fail and it's just going to keep adding to the pile of them acting like shit. The history books are going to cream all of them.