'CLIMATE CHANGE' HAS BEEN SCRUBBED FROM MORE GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

[Judi Lynn]

Source: E & E News


FRANCIE DIEPAN HOUR AGO

The Department of the Treasury removed mentions of "climate change" from an unpublished sustainability report it prepared for 2017, E&E News reports. Meanwhile, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—which researches risks to workers' health—has removed "climate change" from certain webpages, according to work from the Environmental Governance and Data Initiative, an advocacy group that tracks government websites.

These two alterations, both publicly revealed on Monday, are just the latest example of government agencies scrubbing "climate change" from their websites and reports.

These disappearances seem to track with the Trump administration's skepticism of the reality and importance of global warming. But the NIOSH case offers an especially interesting example: Outside experts the Washington Post interviewed regarding the website changes argued that the substance of NIOSH's pages wasn't significantly changed; staffers simply appeared to remove buzzwords that that might draw ire from the administration.

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In January, Pacific Standard spoke with an Environmental Governance and Data Initiative volunteer, Eric Nost, who argued that it does: Close observers and Beltway insiders might understand that "climate conditions" means "climate change," but everyday Americans might not. Nost, a doctoral student in geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, noted that a name change "definitely changes how the public and policymakers understand what the issue is, what's at stake, and what it's related to."

Read more: https://psmag.com/environment/climate-change-has-been-scrubbed-from-more-government-documents

[sakabatou]

1. Gotta keep the public stupid

[jpak]

2. Memory Hole

yup

[PSPS]

3. "Trump administration's skepticism of the reality and importance of global warming."

Nonsense. They're well aware of its "reality and importance." They just don't care.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Short term profits over and above Country. . . . nt

[LiberalArkie]

5. Just proves we do not have anything to worry about

http://cci-reanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#t2max

[procon]

6. The work of the Ministry of Truth never ends. nt

[lordsummerisle]

7. War is Peace

freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength

[Mickju]

8. This is criminal.

[progree]

9. Higher temps - well that's because of the urban heat island effect that screw up temp measurements

and blah blah, and besides it all stopped warming in 1998 and blah blah blah and there's all these emails about the fake hockey stick and blah blah and the satellite temperature adjustments were miscalibrated and blah blah

I found this article in case some fuckhead starts in on some garbage on temperature measurements:

Looking for signs of global warming? It's all around you , AP, 6/19/18
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/06/19/climate-change-signs-all-around

... These days, plants and animals are arriving at Rocky Mountain Biological Lab a week or two earlier than they were 30 years ago. The robins that used to arrive in early April now show up in mid-March.

... Marmots end their winter slumber ever earlier.

Evidence is in the blueberry bushes in Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond, the dwindling population of polar bears of the Arctic and the dying corals worldwide. Scientists have documented 28,800 cases of plants and animals "responding consistently to temperature changes," a 2008 study in the journal Nature said.

... Starting about 30 years ago, the growing season in general around the Northern Hemisphere "rather abruptly changed to a new normal," with earlier springs and later falls, said Mark Schwartz, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee geographer. In the Lower 48 states, 2012 was the earliest growing season on record until it was edged out by 2017, he said.

In the U.S., fall's first frost is happening about nine days on average later since 30 years ago, while the last frost of spring is happening almost four days earlier,

more, much more

... Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech, has heard non-scientists accusing the government or researchers of manipulating temperature data to show warming. There's no cooking the books, she said; nature is broadcasting a clear signal about climate change.

And the Arctic ice sheet is thinning, and it's maximum and minimum areas are shrinking

And the glaciers and snow caps are shrinking .... much of which feeds the great rivers during the spring and summer and fall that are used for irrigation ...

And the rising frequency of superstorms ...

But I guess "climate change" is too much of a "buzzword" for all this.

[Turbineguy]

10. As Neil DeGrasse Tyson might put it:

'The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.'

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

11. One big hit on Mara-l'uh oh' and

dt will be screaming climate change. maybe HAARP can focus on a direct hit there instead of the rest of the country.

[heaven05]

12. Well this poor attempt

at creating propaganda top reflect the greed and avarice of this corrupt administration has missed one very important factor.

We have minds that reason and REMEMBER. Fuck triump, pruitt and the rest of the clown circus in D.C. Their people, the boneheads that voted for this administration didn't believe climate change in the first place. That is the ONLY group that is being brainwashed by this, this, .......ahhh fuck trump!!!!!!!

[rockfordfile]

13. More corruption