{"id":64178,"date":"2017-01-22T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=64178"},"modified":"2017-01-22T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:10:06","slug":"all-references-to-climate-change-have-been-deleted-from-the-white-house-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=64178","title":{"rendered":"All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted From the White House Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by\u00a0Jason Koebler
\nMOTHERBOARD<\/p>\n

At 11:59 am eastern, the official White House website had a lengthy information page about the threat of climate change and the steps the federal government had taken to fight it. At noon, at the instant Donald Trump took office, the page was gone, as well as any mention of climate change or global warming.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s customary for www.whitehouse.gov<\/a> to flip over to the new administration exactly at noon, but the only mention of climate on President Trump\u2019s new website is under his \u201cAmerica First Energy Plan\u201d page, in which he vows to destroy President Obama\u2019s Climate Action Plan<\/a>, which is a government-wide plan to reduce carbon emissions and address climate change. To reiterate: It is normal that the site is completely new; it is notable that climate change is not mentioned on any one of Trump’s new pages.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong>Researchers Are Preparing for Trump to Delete Government Science From the Web<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule,\u201d the site says. A search of the website found no mention of “global warming,” and the only mentions of “climate change” were archived pages that, after clicking on the links, led to scrubbed pages.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what President Obama\u2019s climate change page<\/a> looked like this morning:<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s what it looks like now:<\/p>\n

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Scientists and professors around the country had been rushing to download and rehost as much government science<\/a> as was possible before the transition, based on a fear that Trump\u2019s administration would neglect or outright delete government information, databases, and web applications about science. Last week, the Radio Motherboard podcast<\/a> recorded an episode about these efforts, which you can listen to below, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n