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Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

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Meanwhile, according to the IEA, renewables investments exceed those in fossil fuels since +/- 2022 [1], and are expected to be the top electric power generator by 2026 [2].

The Trump administration is basically following Kodak's strategy from the early 00s.

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[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2025/exe...

[2] https://www.eco-business.com/news/iea-renewables-will-be-wor...

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

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We've seen this before with climategate - people seem to be endlessly editing the historical records.

Historical records, especially pre-record keeping are revised when new techniques and sciences discover better, more reliable ways of interpreting the physical geological evidence left in the world behind us.

What is the basis of these revisions?

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

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post #2

We've seen this before with climategate - people seem to be endlessly editing the historical records.

Historical records, especially pre-record keeping are revised when new techniques and sciences discover better, more reliable ways of interpreting the physical geological evidence left in the world behind us. What is the basis of these revisions?

> What is the basis of these revisions?

Ideology

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Historical records, especially pre-record keeping are revised when new techniques and sciences discover better, more reliable ways of interpreting the physical geological evidence left in the world behind us. What is the basis of these revisions?

> What is the basis of these revisions? Ideology

Money.

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

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Meanwhile, according to the IEA, renewables investments exceed those in fossil fuels since +/- 2022 [1], and are expected to be the top electric power generator by 2026 [2]. The Trump administration is basically following Kodak's strategy from the early 00s. -- [1] https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2025/exe... [2] https://www.eco-business.com/news/iea-renewables-will-be-wor...

Kodak in the early 2010s, maybe?

Eastman Kodak (the spun-off film business) in the 2020s has been more or less stable. They even brought a discontinued film (E100) back. Production and pricing are now in line with the limited demand from film studios and hobbyists.

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

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We've seen this before with climategate - people seem to be endlessly editing the historical records.

Historical records, especially pre-record keeping are revised when new techniques and sciences discover better, more reliable ways of interpreting the physical geological evidence left in the world behind us. What is the basis of these revisions?

A good example of this is revisions EDIT: of the interpretations :ENDEDIT of historical data:

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-1-3%C2%B0c-or-...

Apparently the Japanese continued using wooden buckets longer than other navies, resulting in Pacific data being skewed.

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