> If Trump thinks it is a "hoax", why would he try to delete the evidence of their crime? The theory most consistent with Trump's actions is that his climate

> If Trump thinks it is a "hoax", why would he try to delete the evidence of their crime? The theory most consistent with Trump's actions is that his climate change-is-a-hoax rhetoric was designed to gather votes. Now that he's in power and seeking favour from oil barons, destruction of evidence of climate change advances their agenda of externalizing it to future generations and poor countries. > I really doubt anyone is going to "delete" any data, instead they will stop getting funding to store it, run the servers, etc. Canada has a history of deleting inconvenient data. For example (quick google search): [1] http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-harper-government-has-trashed-and-burned-environmental-books-and-documents http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-harper-government-has-tra... [2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/watchdogs-investigate-document-shredding-at-alberta-legislature/article24430907/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/watchdogs-inves... [3] http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/ http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were... [4] http://aptn.ca/news/2013/05/01/ottawa-fears-admission-it-purposely-destroyed-indian-residential-school-files-would-lead-to-court-fights-documents/ http://aptn.ca/news/2013/05/01/ottawa-fears-admission-it-pur...