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The current administration doesn’t care about climate change, or believes it’s a hoax. Given this, they see no need to fund research and data gathering that tel

The current administration doesn’t care about climate change, or believes it’s a hoax. Given this, they see no need to fund research and data gathering that tells them otherwise.

exe34 4mo ago
No, they are attacking any and all forms of data collection that can be connected to climate change - even if it's not specifically for climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/trump-administration-deleting-data https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/...
- verdverm 4mo ago
  Not just climate data, they are changing how census data is aggregated so they can reverse-individualize for political goals, discussed 3 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377 https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5855734/census-bureau-data-differential-privacy https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5855734/census-bureau-d...
francisofascii 4mo ago
That is a charatable interpretation. A more negative take is they are purposely suppressing the evidence.
- nom 4mo ago
  That is exactly what is happening. Records of environmental data are a huge pain in the ass for those invested in fossil energy and adjacent industries. The truth is hurting business and they seem to be going on a rampage actively killing it at the roots. Stop collecting and recording data, destroy and hide the existing data and close the institutions.
ActorNightly 4mo ago
To be fair, the public in large also dgaf about climate change. Honestly, at this point, having natural disasters with destruction and death is probably the only way to make people care.
- deleted 4mo ago
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- alphawhisky 4mo ago
  Well, it is an El Nino year...
- taylortbb 4mo ago
  > Honestly, at this point, having natural disasters with destruction and death is probably the only way to make people care We already have them. People just claim they're chance effects with no connection to climate change. The problem with refuting it is that they are chance events, there's no way to definitively say "this was caused by climate change", because it's always possible it would have happened anyways. It's the upwards trend in frequency and severity that we can definitively point and say "that's caused by climate change", but that's too abstract for most people to understand.
- burkaman 4mo ago
  This is not true, most people care about climate change, even in the US (https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/ https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc...). Maybe you think "if they care then why are they still driving/flying/eating meat/whatever" and I sympathize, but climate change is not an issue that will be solved by individuals taking responsibility, in the same way that wars still happen even when the vast majority of the population oppose them. If you're wondering why they don't at least vote for someone who cares about climate change, I don't know. But claiming people don't care at all is not true and is self-defeating, because it makes people who do care think "I guess I'm in the minority, there's no point in trying".
  - triceratops 4mo ago

The current administration doesn’t care about climate change, or believes it’s a hoax. Given this, they see no need to fund research and data gathering that tells them otherwise.

exe34 4mo ago

No, they are attacking any and all forms of data collection that can be connected to climate change - even if it's not specifically for climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/trump-administration-deleting-data https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/...

verdverm 4mo ago
Not just climate data, they are changing how census data is aggregated so they can reverse-individualize for political goals, discussed 3 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377 https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5855734/census-bureau-data-differential-privacy https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5855734/census-bureau-d...

francisofascii 4mo ago

That is a charatable interpretation. A more negative take is they are purposely suppressing the evidence.

nom 4mo ago
That is exactly what is happening. Records of environmental data are a huge pain in the ass for those invested in fossil energy and adjacent industries. The truth is hurting business and they seem to be going on a rampage actively killing it at the roots. Stop collecting and recording data, destroy and hide the existing data and close the institutions.

ActorNightly 4mo ago

To be fair, the public in large also dgaf about climate change. Honestly, at this point, having natural disasters with destruction and death is probably the only way to make people care.

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alphawhisky 4mo ago
Well, it is an El Nino year...
taylortbb 4mo ago
> Honestly, at this point, having natural disasters with destruction and death is probably the only way to make people care We already have them. People just claim they're chance effects with no connection to climate change. The problem with refuting it is that they are chance events, there's no way to definitively say "this was caused by climate change", because it's always possible it would have happened anyways. It's the upwards trend in frequency and severity that we can definitively point and say "that's caused by climate change", but that's too abstract for most people to understand.
burkaman 4mo ago
This is not true, most people care about climate change, even in the US (https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/ https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc...). Maybe you think "if they care then why are they still driving/flying/eating meat/whatever" and I sympathize, but climate change is not an issue that will be solved by individuals taking responsibility, in the same way that wars still happen even when the vast majority of the population oppose them. If you're wondering why they don't at least vote for someone who cares about climate change, I don't know. But claiming people don't care at all is not true and is self-defeating, because it makes people who do care think "I guess I'm in the minority, there's no point in trying".
- triceratops 4mo ago