"Human activity is driving climate change; that's a fact that more than 99.9% of scientific papers agree on. But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has quietly removed that information from a webpage explaining climate change's causes. It's yet another move by the Trump administration that downplays climate science. Trump has previously called climate change a "hoax," repealed numerous climate laws, and has bolstered the use of fossil fuels, the burning of which are the main cause of rising heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions."
"An EPA page titled "Causes of Climate Change" once began by directly noting that "since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have released large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which has changed the earth's climate." N ow, that page begins by stating, "Natural processes are always influencing the earth's climate and can explain climate changes prior to the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s." (The previous version of the website is still available via online archives.)"
"Daniel Swain, a climate and weather scientist at UCLA, noticed the change earlier this week. It began when a weather communications colleague reached out to him about the EPA's "Indicators of Climate Change" section being offline. That section wasn't just one web page, but an entire subdomain that included data, maps, and detailed stories on certain climate change indicators like shrinking glaciers and rising sea levels. It was often used by experts, including Swain himself, to grab ready-made info graphics and other resources."
More than 99.9% of scientific papers agree that human activity drives climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency removed a webpage statement that human activities have released large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. The page now emphasizes that natural processes influence climate and can explain pre-Industrial Revolution changes. The change occurred amid broader Trump administration actions that downplay climate science, including repealing climate laws and promoting fossil fuels. A UCLA climate scientist found an 'Indicators of Climate Change' subdomain offline and a redirect to a broken page. The scientist's investigation revealed a wider removal of scientifically accurate information.
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