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All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted from the White House Website

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Re: All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted from the White House Website

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Post by jandrese »

I said it on election day and I'll say it again. Sorry kids, we fucked up. Making billionaires even richer is more important than keeping the Earth livable. Trump doesn't care, he'll be dead before the ice caps finish melting and we start seeing just how badly we're screwed. All that matters in the big race is winning, and winning is measured in dollars.

Re: All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted from the White House Website

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Post by vowelless »

I think the headline is a little wrong or maybe I am misreading it. It's not the case that someone went to the website and deleted climate change references; but rather, there is a new web site which doesn't have any references.

As the article itself says :

> 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

Re: All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted from the White House Website

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Post by azeirah »

I did some digging.

$ wget --execute="robots = off" --mirror --convert-links --no-parent www.whitehouse.gov

$ grep -rl climate

the-press-office/2011/09/20/president-obama-participate-linkedin-town-hall-mountain-view-california-

the-press-office/2011/09/21/remarks-president-obama-and-president-clinton-clinton-global-initiative

the-press-office/2011/02/28/presidential-proclamation-50th-anniversary-peace-corps

joiningforces

1600/first-ladies/mamieeisenhower

1600/first-ladies/louhoover

The first three are press releases from 2011, so they're old. The fourth result "joiningforces" has this at the top of the page "This is historical material “frozen in time”. The website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work."

The other two pages are duds, because they're just talking about the climate as in "it's a nice climate".

So yep, no references to climate change whatsoever

Re: All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted from the White House Website

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Post by iaw »

vowelless wrote: post #4

I think the headline is a little wrong or maybe I am misreading it. It's not the case that someone went to the website and deleted climate change references; but rather, there is a new web site which doesn't have any references. As the article itself says : > 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

Thanks for pointing this out, I missed it on my first read-through. The framing of this article implies that the Trump administration scrubbed the references first thing rather than roll out their new version which had no references to climate change.

I'm as ready as half the country to despise this administration but I'll save my outrage for things that are actually malicious.

Re: All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted from the White House Website

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Post by lloyd-christmas »

azeirah wrote: post #6

I did some digging. $ wget --execute="robots = off" --mirror --convert-links --no-parent www.whitehouse.gov $ grep -rl climate the-press-office/2011/09/20/president-obama-participate-linkedin-town-hall-mountain-view-california- the-press-office/2011/09/21/remarks-president-obama-and-president-clinton-clinton-global-initiative the-press-office/2011/02/28/presidential-proclamation-50th-anniversary-peace-corps joiningfo…

Sadly, it's directly mentioned on this page.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy

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