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Thursday, September 21st, 2017

‘No Results Found’: Thousands of Climate Science Links Purged From USGS Online Database

Author:     Lorraine Chow
Source:     EcoWatch
Publication Date:     20 September 2017
 Link: ‘No Results Found’: Thousands of Climate Science Links Purged From USGS Online Database
Stephan:   Yesterday I made the point that the way fascist governments deal with information they don't like is to suppress, or falsify it. Today the Trump administration could not be more blatant in demonstrating. That's predictable, but what amazes me is that the United States currently has Houston, Florida, the American Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico in a state of crisis as a result of extreme weather events, and yet the administration is trying to delete information on the climate. It's a level of scumbaggery I would have found it hard to imagine in 2015.

Yet another U.S. agency has deleted climate change information from its website. This time, the U.S. Geological Survey’s “Science Explorer” website—a tax-payer funded online database for the public to browse USGS science programs and activities—has been purged of thousands of formerly searchable climate science links.

The startling discovery was made by Peter Gleick, a climate scientist and member of the U.S. National Academy of Science.

“I didn’t realize how badly Trump has eviscerated access to federal #climate data, so I went and looked at the USGS site,” he tweeted Sunday.

In a series of tweets, Gleick noted the extent to which climate-related links have been expunged from the site a month after Donald Trump took over the White House:

  • In December, there were 5,932 climate science items linked there (9 were just pictures). Today there are 416 and 292 are just pictures.
  • In December 2016, 320 of those items were links to #climate data. Today, 0 links to data. 5,271 were web links. Now, 0 web links. “And the USGS “Effects of #Climate Change” webpage had 2,825 items in December. […]
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