The US Government Is Stripping Scientific Data From The Internet
In recent months, the Trump administration has directed the EPA to remove “climate change” data from its website. In the past few days, the USDA has been told to use different terminology other than “climate change” to explain the causes of inclimate weather. Since this has happened, climate scientists have leaked a 600 page report compiled from thousands of journals explaining that climate change is happening, it’s getting really bad, but they had to leak SCIENCE because they’re afraid the administration would cover it all up.
Related: EPA Website Removes Climate Change Section
Isn’t it bad that scientists have to leak information about what is happening because crazed, money hungry denialists can’t see what is happening right in front of them? Isn’t the fact that the Great Barrier Reef is being bleached by toxins and raising water temperature a blatant piece of proof that this is happening enough? Nah, that’s why the US government is stripping scientific data from the internet.
Ars Technica editors Annalee Newitz and Joe Mullin talked to UC Santa Cruz sociology professor Lindsey Dillon about how the Trump administration has been removing scientific and environmental data from the internet in an effort to pull the wool over the eyes of people who want more information about what is happening in the world.
Where do you think the internet came from? Science. Lindsey Dillon is a part of a group called the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI). They work to recover information that’s been removed to make it accessible to people who want to know what is actually going on. When around 4 in 10 of the USA thinks Earth is 6,000-years-old, we need people like her to retrieve as much stuff as possible.
Below is an interview with Lindsay Dillon about what her organization is trying to achieve.
(Via Ars Technica)
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