One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
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Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#2Go ahead and think the EPA has done lots of good, I'm sure it has. Go ahead and disagree with what he is doing. To call what Trump is doing "censorship" is completely asinine and not at all what it is.
Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#3Go ahead and think the EPA has done lots of good, I'm sure it has. Go ahead and disagree with what he is doing. To call what Trump is doing "censorship" is completely asinine and not at all what it is.
It's more accurate to describe it as propaganda and deception, yes.
Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#4Go ahead and think the EPA has done lots of good, I'm sure it has. Go ahead and disagree with what he is doing. To call what Trump is doing "censorship" is completely asinine and not at all what it is.
What do you think it is? (I'm genuinely curious, certainly open to alternate explanations.)
Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#5Go ahead and think the EPA has done lots of good, I'm sure it has. Go ahead and disagree with what he is doing. To call what Trump is doing "censorship" is completely asinine and not at all what it is.
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Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#6Go ahead and think the EPA has done lots of good, I'm sure it has. Go ahead and disagree with what he is doing. To call what Trump is doing "censorship" is completely asinine and not at all what it is.
Hacker News readers really are here to learn, and comments need to be substantive and informative so we can do that. Could you please increase the signal a bit?
Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#7When building our house we learned about the EPA's formaldehyde limits. It's funny that for manufactured homes the levels are higher because poor people don't want to pay for "healthy" houses directly (higher cost of construction). So the manufactured housing companies lobbied for lower standards to keep costs low.
I'm not able to find the original EPA guidelines due to the changes on the website now about the new pressed-wood rulings on formaldehyde.
Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#8It's covered in the index, along with 7 different sub topics: https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics/z-index#C Alternatively, searching for "climate change" using the EPA site search yields 5,290 surprisingly well presented results.
I'd agree that it should be listed as one of the main topics on the front page given its relevance. Trump's appointee doesn't because of his own personal biases. That's pretty much the end of it. Drawing an analog between it being removed from the front page drop down and China censoring Tiananmen Square is needlessly hyperbolic and sensationalistic.
Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#9Go ahead and think the EPA has done lots of good, I'm sure it has. Go ahead and disagree with what he is doing. To call what Trump is doing "censorship" is completely asinine and not at all what it is.
What do you think it is? (I'm genuinely curious, certainly open to alternate explanations.)
At best, shaping messaging of policy, at worst, propaganda. He isn't preventing any scientists from publishing anything. Even if he did scrub a term from the entire site personally, that isn't censorship. It isn't illegal to talk about Climate Change.
Re: One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
#10Apart from language cleansing on an ideological basis (which is still significant and disturbing), has any hosted data or research on climate change been affected? Are they poised to be affected?
There was an HN news item about climate scientists backing up government data on climate change before the new administration took office and it would be interesting to follow up on the discussions that took place. Maybe that follow-up has already happened.