Growl. Sigh. Rinse. Repeat.
But one other useful resource that belongs to us, the US public, has disappeared down the Trump administration’s reminiscence gap. I simply realized from the valiant Environmental Knowledge and Authorities Initiative that the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has eliminated the 2024 Local weather Literacy Information from its web site (although a knowledge savior has preserved it right here). Now, nobody can entry a basic federal useful resource that helps the general public perceive local weather change through its correct residence at https://www.local weather.gov/.
Who wants the Local weather Literacy Information? Trump’s Sign crew, that’s who
Anybody who needs to know what’s taking place to our world—why we maintain stacking hottest yr on hottest yr, why wildfires are so intense, why some hurricanes strengthen so quickly—can study from the Local weather Literacy Information.
However some key nationwide safety officers may use a brand new Sign chat, this time discussing the literacy information to raised perceive important ideas of local weather change science, impacts, and options. Bonus: None of this info is assessed! And if an unintentional invitation is obtainable, I’d love to affix officers who notably do use Sign:
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has simply ordered the “elimination of local weather protection planning,” scrapping years of Pentagon coverage that recognized local weather as a significant and mounting risk to nationwide safety.
Vice President JD Vance, who doesn’t acknowledge human-caused local weather change.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who once more can’t fairly work out the place he’s imagined to be within the (local weather) dialog.
Director of Nationwide Safety Tulsi Gabbard, who apparently okayed the omission of local weather change from the US intelligence neighborhood’s annual risk evaluation report for the primary time in 11 years.
Homeland Safety Advisor Stephen Miller, who through the earlier Trump administration wasn’t “eager about local weather change” even after an inside report confirmed it was a driver of migration to the US (together with driving huge human struggling). In the meanwhile, Miller “is extra highly effective [on immigration] than ever.”
Nobody appears to know why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was included within the Yemen army assault Sign chat, so I suggest swapping him out for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who promised in his affirmation listening to that he wouldn’t dismantle NOAA.
Literacy versus lies
It so occurred that NOAA disappeared the information whereas I’m on the Local weather Data Integrity Summit in Brasília, Brazil. The summit, organized by members of the Local weather Motion Towards Disinformation (CAAD) coalition, was a subsequent step within the Brazilian authorities’s work with the UN and different member states to additional progress on the World Initiative for Data Integrity on Local weather Change.
Greater than 120 key actors from governments, multilateral organizations, and native and worldwide non-profit organizations mentioned concrete steps in the direction of safeguarding the integrity of local weather info within the lead-up to the following spherical of worldwide local weather negotiations, COP30.
CAAD members (together with UCS) clearly see that local weather disinformation undermines elections, renewable vitality, science, and human rights. That’s why different nations are already taking motion to restrict the hurt disinformation can do, whether or not the lies for revenue come from fossil gasoline firms, agribusiness, and Massive Tech firms that run social media platforms or search engines like google and yahoo. Local weather denial and deception in flip result in a delay in local weather motion that we merely can’t afford.
Local weather literacy is key to local weather info integrity. A public armed with that science, plus an understanding of the disinformation playbook that company actors carry on working, is a key pillar of protection in opposition to the companies who revenue as individuals undergo.
No surprise the Trump administration, intent on enacting the fossil gasoline agenda, doesn’t need us to know and perceive what they’re doing to our local weather. Authoritarians want an uncritical public that lives in ignorance. Heads up—we’re paying consideration and we know.
Growl. Sigh. Rinse. Repeat.
But one other useful resource that belongs to us, the US public, has disappeared down the Trump administration’s reminiscence gap. I simply realized from the valiant Environmental Knowledge and Authorities Initiative that the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has eliminated the 2024 Local weather Literacy Information from its web site (although a knowledge savior has preserved it right here). Now, nobody can entry a basic federal useful resource that helps the general public perceive local weather change through its correct residence at https://www.local weather.gov/.
Who wants the Local weather Literacy Information? Trump’s Sign crew, that’s who
Anybody who needs to know what’s taking place to our world—why we maintain stacking hottest yr on hottest yr, why wildfires are so intense, why some hurricanes strengthen so quickly—can study from the Local weather Literacy Information.
However some key nationwide safety officers may use a brand new Sign chat, this time discussing the literacy information to raised perceive important ideas of local weather change science, impacts, and options. Bonus: None of this info is assessed! And if an unintentional invitation is obtainable, I’d love to affix officers who notably do use Sign:
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has simply ordered the “elimination of local weather protection planning,” scrapping years of Pentagon coverage that recognized local weather as a significant and mounting risk to nationwide safety.
Vice President JD Vance, who doesn’t acknowledge human-caused local weather change.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who once more can’t fairly work out the place he’s imagined to be within the (local weather) dialog.
Director of Nationwide Safety Tulsi Gabbard, who apparently okayed the omission of local weather change from the US intelligence neighborhood’s annual risk evaluation report for the primary time in 11 years.
Homeland Safety Advisor Stephen Miller, who through the earlier Trump administration wasn’t “eager about local weather change” even after an inside report confirmed it was a driver of migration to the US (together with driving huge human struggling). In the meanwhile, Miller “is extra highly effective [on immigration] than ever.”
Nobody appears to know why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was included within the Yemen army assault Sign chat, so I suggest swapping him out for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who promised in his affirmation listening to that he wouldn’t dismantle NOAA.
Literacy versus lies
It so occurred that NOAA disappeared the information whereas I’m on the Local weather Data Integrity Summit in Brasília, Brazil. The summit, organized by members of the Local weather Motion Towards Disinformation (CAAD) coalition, was a subsequent step within the Brazilian authorities’s work with the UN and different member states to additional progress on the World Initiative for Data Integrity on Local weather Change.
Greater than 120 key actors from governments, multilateral organizations, and native and worldwide non-profit organizations mentioned concrete steps in the direction of safeguarding the integrity of local weather info within the lead-up to the following spherical of worldwide local weather negotiations, COP30.
CAAD members (together with UCS) clearly see that local weather disinformation undermines elections, renewable vitality, science, and human rights. That’s why different nations are already taking motion to restrict the hurt disinformation can do, whether or not the lies for revenue come from fossil gasoline firms, agribusiness, and Massive Tech firms that run social media platforms or search engines like google and yahoo. Local weather denial and deception in flip result in a delay in local weather motion that we merely can’t afford.
Local weather literacy is key to local weather info integrity. A public armed with that science, plus an understanding of the disinformation playbook that company actors carry on working, is a key pillar of protection in opposition to the companies who revenue as individuals undergo.
No surprise the Trump administration, intent on enacting the fossil gasoline agenda, doesn’t need us to know and perceive what they’re doing to our local weather. Authoritarians want an uncritical public that lives in ignorance. Heads up—we’re paying consideration and we know.
