With Trump and climate change, denial is a hell of a drug
With Trump and climate change, denial is a hell of a drug
Trump is trying make a climate report go extinct
Facts can be awfully stubborn things. And they’re especially inconvenient for the Trump administration.
So the president and his goons are simply disappearing them, deleting vast tranches of scientific, health, and other data from federal websites.
Why bother with a debate over the facts when you can fix it so they don’t exist in the first place? It’s much easier to deem racial health disparities a myth if there’s no longer a massive reservoir of government data showing otherwise, for example. And it’s easier to suggest vaccines cause autism if you scrub the data suggesting that theory is a massive and deadly crock.
Nowhere has this approach been clearer than on climate and the environment, where, in its efforts at “Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry,” the administration has demanded that thousands of datasets be removed from federal websites, including the State Department, the Department of Agriculture, and NASA — or hidden so the public cannot find them.
