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Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by mulmen »

timr wrote: post #49

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Sure, it is always DNS. But are other sites on that DNS also down? How long has this site been down? Has anyone acknowledged this outage?

If the DNS is up and the domain is registered it starts to look like a takedown instead of a mistake.

I do know that the EPA took down their EJScreen [1] dataset so it’s not like politically motivated takedowns are unprecedented under the current regime.

[1]: https://screening-tools.com/epa-ejscreen

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by timr »

bombcar wrote: post #50
timr wrote: post #49

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If you see your hosts file what the DNS used to show, does the server respond? That’s usually the real test.

I don't know, it's a good question. I don't have the IP addresses cached.

NPR notes that the report is here [1], so if someone is trying to hide it, they're not doing a particularly good job.

[1] https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61592

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by roxolotl »

timr wrote: post #49

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Is it really that unreasonable to believe that a government run by people who’ve regularly called climate change a hoax and has a history of pulling previously public data is pulling the public data about climate change? I don’t disagree that jumping to conclusions is bad but intentionally discounting prior behavior seems just as reckless to me.

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Post by decremental »

aaroninsf wrote: post #3

The current administration is not merely racists, autocratic, and hell bent on insuring all wealth is held by the oligarch class, it is also engaged in the most venal, short-sighted, and destructive assault on the basic functions of governance and civil society I can imagine. I don't care what one's view is on the appropriate scale and role of federal governance, some operations are best and only accomplished at that…

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Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by timr »

Glant wrote: post #52
timr wrote: post #49

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According to someone from NASA, it was in fact shut down. NASA will eventually re-publish the reports. https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-majo...

That's a better article than the link, since they actually bothered to get answers to the question from definitive sources. NPR also linked directly to the NOAA copy of the report, lending credence to the "sloppy relocation" theory of the case:

https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61592

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by padjo »

timr wrote: post #49

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“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries”

Nobody is jumping to conclusions, lots of climate related information is being scrubbed. This website has been down for at least 12 hours. The fact that the domain is still registered proves precisely nothing.

Could it be a misconfiguration? Sure, but available evidence points to an ongoing attempt to erase everything related to climate change.

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