The Trump administration is doing everything it can to make it harder for the American people to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation.
Earlier this month the official government websites that hosted reliable, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went completely dark. The White House promised that NASA would post the reports instead, but on Monday, NASA aborted those plans.
“NASA has no legal obligations to host globalchange.gov’s data,”
NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens said in an email.
American climate scientists are outraged.
“This document was written for the American people, paid for by the taxpayers, and it contains vital information we need to keep ourselves safe in a changing climate,”
said Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, co-author of several past national climate assessments.
Former science adviser for the Obama White House John Holdren accused the administration of outright lying, saying they long wanted to bury the reports.
“They simply don’t want the public to see the meticulously assembled and scientifically validated information about what climate change is already doing to our farms, forests, and fisheries, as well as to storms, floods, wildfires, and coast property — and about how all those damages will grow in the absence of concerted remedial action,”
Holdren said in an email,
“Trump doesn’t want people to know.”
Of course he doesn’t want the American people to know the truth. It is much easier to defund government agencies responsible for assessing and mitigating climate change and use all that money for tax breaks for his billionaire friends, and to roll back Biden-era environmental regulations if the people remain in the dark. Meanwhile Environment America reports that the US faced 27 major climate-related disasters in 2024 alone.
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