Trump administration removes links to taxpayer-funded climate data on USGS website
Source: thinkprogress
Trump administration removes links to taxpayer-funded climate data on USGS website
You paid for U.S. Geological Survey climate data, but the White House is making it disappear.
Sep 18, 2017, 5:01 pm
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, they’ve 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 doesn’t alter the reality of human-caused climate change and the dire consequences of President Donald Trump’s effort to undermine domestic and global climate action. But that doesn’t 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 Survey’s “Science Explorer” website, which the agency’s 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:.........................
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-officials-erase-climate-data-2a4e4fe81f96/
Behind the scenes, the damage to the US continues!!
Link to tweet
= new reply since forum marked as read
My first thought was that anybody taking on that job after Bush*/Cheney would have such an insurmountable amount to fix. But the damage that Trump and his minions have managed to perpetrate in just a few months totally boggles the mind... 
Given time it makes the hider look extremely stupid and very corrupt.
