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At 11:59 am eastern, the official White House website had a lengthy information page about the threat of climate change and the steps the federal government had taken to fight it. At noon, at the instant Donald Trump took office, the page was gone, as well as any mention of climate change or global warming.
It’s customary for www.whitehouse.gov to flip over to the new administration exactly at noon, but the only mention of climate on President Trump’s new website is under his “America First Energy Plan” page, in which he vows to destroy President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which is a government-wide plan to reduce carbon emissions and address climate change. To reiterate: It is normal that the site is completely new; it is notable that climate change is not mentioned on any one of Trump's new pages.
READ MORE: Researchers Are Preparing for Trump to Delete Government Science From the Web
“President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule,” the site says. A search of the website found no mention of "global warming," and the only mentions of "climate change" were archived pages that, after clicking on the links, led to scrubbed pages.
Scientists and professors around the country had been rushing to download and rehost as much government science as was possible before the transition, based on a fear that Trump’s administration would neglect or outright delete government information, databases, and web applications about science. Last week, the Radio Motherboard podcast recorded an episode about these efforts, which you can listen to below, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
The Internet Archive, too, has been keeping a close watch on the White House website; President Obama’s climate change page had been archived every single day in January.
So far, nothing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s website has changed under Trump, but a report earlier this week from Inside EPA, a newsletter and website that reports on the agency, suggested that pages about climate are destined to be cut within the first few weeks of his presidency.
Scientists I’ve spoken to who are archiving websites say they expect scientific data on the NASA, NOAA, Department of Energy, and EPA websites to be neglected or deleted eventually. They say they don’t expect agency sites to be updated immediately, but expect it to play out over the course of months. This sort of low-key data destruction might not be the type of censorship people typically think about, but scientists are treating it as such.
“When I stereotypically think of censorship, I don’t necessarily think of data being deleted, but I think of spectacular instances of book burning—that’s censorship,” Bethany Wiggin, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has been archiving data told me. “But actually, it happens much more in subtle ways and it’s not always so black and white.”
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2017-01-20, 07:54 PM #1Banned
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All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted From the White House Website
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2017-01-20, 07:55 PM #2The Insane
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This is my surprised face.
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2017-01-20, 07:57 PM #3Deleted
Too bad that the rats will have everyone sink with them, because of their rotten ignorance. (Read: Voters who Voted Trump - Ya'll pooped where you sleep. Have fun.)
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2017-01-20, 07:57 PM #4Pandaren Monk
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No surprise from ANYONE.
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2017-01-20, 07:57 PM #5Titan
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2020 can't come fast enough.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
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2017-01-20, 08:00 PM #6The Lightbringer
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Time to start the vault program. Just without the freaky experiments please.
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2017-01-20, 08:01 PM #7The Unstoppable Force
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Good, they were not solution-driven. They were a waste of space.
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2017-01-20, 08:01 PM #8Dreadlord
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I have a question, regarding Global Warming and Human Effect.
Say it is 100% true that we are causing it (all of it) and we can either fix it or keep on as usual.
If we keep on keeping on and do nothing to curtail it, how long (how many years) will it be, before we as a species can't live on the planet?
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2017-01-20, 08:01 PM #9Dreadlord
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So nothing has happened yet, everyone is just freaking out because he MIGHT remove SOME-things from SOME sites.
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Do people even read posts or just look at the headline?"I don't contemplate, I meditate, then off your fucking head" -Kendrick Lamar
"If you have no sauce, then you're lost. But, you can also get lost in the sauce."-Gucci Mane
"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken"-Colonel Sanders
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2017-01-20, 08:01 PM #10Elemental Lord
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Biden trolling?
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2017-01-20, 08:02 PM #11Immortal
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He's not going to replace them with anything. Originally Posted by PrimaryColor
Fuck the environment right in the pussy.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
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2017-01-20, 08:02 PM #12DeletedAnd being in the pocket of oil companies, is? Originally Posted by PrimaryColor
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2017-01-20, 08:03 PM #13Moderator
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https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues
And civil rights
And LGBT issues
And education
And health care
And veterans
And social security
And ethics
and more.
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2017-01-20, 08:04 PM #14Dreadlord
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Don't forget, you gotta grab it too. Originally Posted by jackofwind
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2017-01-20, 08:04 PM #15Epic!
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Now that's intriguing. I hear LGBT got the same fate.
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2017-01-20, 08:06 PM #16The Insane
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That's the ultra conservative mindset. "I got mine, fuck the rest." Originally Posted by Nexx226
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2017-01-20, 08:06 PM #17Epic!
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I'm going to doubt it's related to the presidency then... Originally Posted by Edge-
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2017-01-20, 08:09 PM #18The Unstoppable Force
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Lefties say Republicans are a dying breed. If true it would be more like shitting on their future. Originally Posted by PvPHeroLulz
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2017-01-20, 08:09 PM #19DeletedOr maybe it's entirely related to the presidency. Originally Posted by bolly
Make America Great Again, and All Hail the Mighty Kek whilst The Nation Burns. Am i doing this right? Being, "Edgey", like very other trump shitposter?
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2017-01-20, 08:10 PM #20Immortal
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What's left? His tweets? Originally Posted by Edge-
Maybe Trump is compensating because he was never that popular on MySpace and made the white house website his MySpace now?
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