White House climate change webpage disappears after Trump's inauguration

[octoberlib]

Less than an hour after President Donald Trump took the oath of office on Friday, the White House’s webpage on climate change disappeared, the latest sign that the new administration will divert resources – and attention – from the issue.

The removal of the page from the White House’s website came around the same time the site and other Executive Branch digital platforms were overhauled to reflect the newly inaugurated administration.


Trump has long denied, or at least questioned, the notion that human activity is causing rapid shifts in the Earth’s climate, despite nearly unanimous agreement among climate scientists. At one point, the president called the phenomenon a “hoax” propagated by China to make U.S. manufacturing less competitive.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315284-white-house-climate-change-webpage-disappears-after-trumps

[renate]

1. I heard something on the radio the other day that was encouraging

Thanks to past investment and funding in clean energy research, it's actually becoming financially competitive with fossil fuels now, so it matters less whether the president believes in climate change.

I hope that's true.

[spanone]

2. of course it does. we have a climate denier who's the right wing's president now.