In a post on January 28 — a week into President Trump’s second term — I urged that it is time to “purge the climate scam from the federal websites.” Trump 1.0 did a remarkably poor job of taking control of communications on the climate issue on websites like those of EPA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Transportation. Are they doing any better this time?
They have definitely taken some significant steps to address this issue here in the early weeks of the new administration. For example, on April 15 the Guardian ran a piece with the headline “Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals.” It seems like Trump 2.0 has taken down the webpages that formerly tracked climate impacts on “low-income communities.” Of course, that has promptly spurred the usual round of lawsuits, this time brought by “green groups” including the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Excerpt from the Guardian:
In the first weeks of its second term, the Trump administration pulled federal websites tracking shifts in the climate, pollution and extreme weather impacts on low-income communities, and identifying pieces of infrastructure that are extremely vulnerable to climate disasters. “The public has a right to access these taxpayer-funded datasets,” said Gretchen Goldman, president of the science advocacy non-profit Union of Concerned Scientists, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. . . . “Removing government datasets is tantamount to theft,” Goldman added.
The particular lawsuit in question has been brought where you would expect — the District Court of the District of Columbia. No word if Judge James Boasberg has been named to preside, or of any injunction has yet been issued.
I applaud the administration people for making this “climate justice” nonsense a priority in revising the government’s communications. If there is one thing that is obvious about the attempt to suppress fossil fuels, it is that poor people stand to be disproportionately harmed by the resulting increasing prices for energy. Meanwhile, the idea that CO2 in the atmosphere is somehow a health hazard is completely absurd. The whole “climate justice” pitch was always propaganda at its most vile.
Looking around at the relevant websites, I find at least a few other notable changes. For example, at the Department of Energy website, I observed in the January 28 post, there was a link for “combatting the climate crisis.” If you clicked that, you would be taken to a “page full of Biden-era claptrap.” Today that same link goes to the Department of Energy opening page, which leads with Secretary Chris Wright’s remarks at the 2025 CERAWeek conference. More generally, announcements about the supposed “climate crisis” are no longer featured on the front pages of the relevant sites.
But overall, much less has changed than should have. Sections in the Department of Energy website about “Decarbonization,” the “Floating Offshore Wind Shot,” and the “Net Zero Economy” are somehow still active. If President Trump has paused all offshore wind development, what is the Department of Energy doing still saying things like “Floating offshore wind is key to transitioning dense population centers to clean energy”?
Similarly, over at EPA, you won’t find reference to climate change on the website’s opening page. But if you type “climate change” into the search box, you will still be take to pages that appear unchanged since Biden left office. An example of a remaining gem:
Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that human activities are responsible for today’s climate change, primarily by releasing excess greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These greenhouse gas emissions come from activities such as burning fossil fuels for energy, raising livestock, and clearing forests.
There is much, much more like this in the still-active climate science section of EPA’s site.
So my message to team Trump on this subject is, good start but it’s time to take this seriously and get to work.
Maybe the light is starting to dawn –
The language – “primarily” and “excess” might indicate to a GHE disbeliever that even “climate scientists” are covering their backsides, so that later they can say “We only said “primarily”, and only referred to “excess” gases.”, and wriggle out of accepting responsibility for blaming “climate change” completely on evil “greenhouse gases” from “fossil fuels”.
Trying to pin the slippery and devious buggers down about the other causes (implied by “primarily”), and what is meant by “excess” is as silly as trying to get Willis Eschenbach to admit that he either believes that adding CO2 to air makes it hotter – or that he doesn’t!
Very wishy-washy, GHE believers. Usually vociferous about what they didn’t say, not so forthcoming about saying anything which will expose their childlike gullibility.
They can’t prove the “primarily”, either. It’s pure speculation.
Yes, marketing is an evil science and 98 percent of doctors and dentists agree (depending on the target audience and sales goals).
Surely it is a fairly simple matter to compare the temperature of CO2 injected into the air with that if the air it is injected into. It will rapidly share any temperature difference as it mixes. CO2 from combustion processes will be warmer. CO2 released from oceans could well be cooler.
Story Tip.
World Economic Forum’s Schwab Steps Down After Over 50 Years
A massive CON-artist, totalitarian, marxist deviant.. finally gone.
Never got his wish of ruling the World.. diddums. !
He made a good living organizing conferences….just the hotel room vig at Davos would be six figure stuff…
The federal government should immediately re-post all the fraudulent, taxpayer-funded data. Create a domain named fraud.gov and post all these studies there. The public has a right to know.
Get NASA to restore the web page that stated:
“The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth’s climate system.”
And the NASA page where James Hansen says 1934 was 0.5C hotter than 1998.
Trumpians can run but they can’t hide from tiny dips in sea level and the climate abyss-
Tiny dips in sea level reveal flow of climate-regulating underwater waterfalls
Cheap and effective – with no carbon emissionsThis is the first time Antarctic dense water cascades have been monitored from space. What makes this approach so powerful is its ability to deliver long-term, wide-reaching observations at low cost and with zero carbon emissions – using satellites that are already in orbit.
In our study, we combined nearly a decade of satellite observations with high-resolution ocean models focused on the Ross Sea.
Ahh that explains it all.
You can help expertise break through the noise.As we approach an important election year, The Conversation editors are focused on delivering trustworthy journalism that Australians need to make informed decisions…….
A few centimeters is noise in the normal wind driven surface waves.
I wonder how they are addressing the signal to noise ratio.
FYI yes salt will cause water to sink. So does cold. Ice is colder than the water it floats on, so when it melts, that cold also sinks.
https://youtu.be/KGdFH8FGd0s
“Ice fingers”.
Elon should definitely move some tech people in to scrub this crap out wholesale.
We want the original, aka raw, data preserved. The ideology is what is most urgently in need of a scrub.
From every indication the raw data was never there begin with, nothing but leftarded stupidity. Finding the useful data will be the real trick, I am certain Democrats have been scrubbing and hiding anything that would help America.
Now let’s see a progress report on removing faux climate science misinformation signage at national parks and monuments. They have been defaced long enough.
It won’t be sufficient simply to eliminate the false propaganda. A programme of positive education is also needed.
“A programme of positive education is also needed.”
First lesson: Correlation is not causation. That applies to both sides of the discussion; echo chambers are not constructive.
Very few understand the so called “greenhouse effect”. (It is not a greenhouse, nor a blanket)
Pictured below are two laser pointer beams in a pitcher of water, one is clear, one is tinted with food dye. Every schoolchild should be able to explain this real phenomenon with the laws of science, and how this is both similar to and different from atmospheric physics. (note the complete absorption of the green laser beam)
I wish the state of Wokeachusetts would do this- but it won’t with the current administration. Every state web site is loaded with climate nonsense. The seem to be unaware that there is a new sheriff in town. Meanwhile, many people with lots of money and talent are leaving the state.
My question is “why do greenies completely ignore or sidestep the Scientific Method in their pushing climate change. Ans. Because those people either are ignorant about the Scientific Method or wish to avoid taking responsibility for push a science that is not supportable by scientific data. Nearly all reported “events” pointed to by greenies is in fact weather events which are not related to greenhouse effects.
Because the scientific method uses math, and for them, math is racist.
The Scientific Method does not establish that human-caused climate change exists, so Democrats steer clear of real science, and rely on speculation and assumptions.
I’m all for “de-PBSing” government websites.
Presently a list of Trump’s actions are being quietly collated as infantile witterings ready to be rolled back when the opposition find a half decent leader.
Without proving WHY he is binning climate change the notion will simmer unbowed among the cult ready to become their standard in the inevitable fight back against authoritarianism.
If the clown had any idea he would have scientists explaining through media outlets up and down the country that no definitive cause and effect observational evidence for the claim of dangerous man made climate change exists.
The stake through the heart would then be complete.
He really is leaving the door open