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timr[dead post] ◴[] No.44449975[source]
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padjo ◴[] No.44450077[source]
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries”

Nobody is jumping to conclusions, lots of climate related information is being scrubbed. This website has been down for at least 12 hours. The fact that the domain is still registered proves precisely nothing.

Could it be a misconfiguration? Sure, but available evidence points to an ongoing attempt to erase everything related to climate change.

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timr ◴[] No.44450128[source]
> “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries”

Except they did, as I found an NPR article with official comment, and there's a link downthread to this much better article about the same thing, again with authoritative reply:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-majo...

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padjo ◴[] No.44450210[source]
And they responded to say “yes we took it down” so what’s your point again?
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timr ◴[] No.44450222[source]
No, they literally said "we're moving it to NASA".

I'm not arguing that the overall fact pattern is good here. I'm saying this article is stupid and lazy.

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triceratops ◴[] No.44450267[source]
"As of this writing, NASA has not provided any details on when and where the reports will be available again or if the new assessment will proceed."
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timr ◴[] No.44450311[source]
Yeah, try reading a better source [1]:

> NASA will now take over, Victoria LaCivita, communications director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told ABC News. "All preexisting reports will be hosted on the NASA website, ensuring compliance with statutorily required reporting," LaCivita said, referring ABC News to NASA for more information.

So, they're explicitly answering the second half of that question. Again, not suggesting the fact pattern is good, just that this article is terrible. I assume the AP could have also managed to get the same quote before running to press with speculation?

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-shutters-majo...

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triceratops ◴[] No.44450379[source]
> Yeah, try reading a better source [1]:

It's from your source. It's the very last sentence in the article as of right now.

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timr ◴[] No.44450419[source]
> It's from your source. It's the very last sentence in the article as of right now.

Sorry, what? I don't have any affiliation with ABC. Someone else posted the link.

NPR has the same basic comments [2]:

> All five editions of the National Climate Assessment that have been published over the years will also be available on NASA's website, according to NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens. NASA doesn't yet know when that website will be available to the public.

How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5453501/national-climat...

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triceratops ◴[] No.44450613[source]
> I don't have any affiliation with ABC

I didn't say that. You've been posting it everywhere and called it a "better source" that we should all read. Calling it "your source" is a reasonable shorthand.

> How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

I didn't say that either. I only pasted a direct quote from an article you urged everyone to read. How you get from that to what you're saying is beyond me.

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1. timr ◴[] No.44451088[source]
> I only pasted a direct quote from an article you urged everyone to read.

Mea culpa, I missed the line because it was at stranded at the bottom of a bunch of blocked ads. About the only thing I can say is that "NASA" and "any details" is doing all of the heavy lifting in that sentence.

The reporter just quoted someone from the administration saying that they'll follow the law. So the reporter runs over to NASA, doesn't get an immediate or exact answer, and says "OK, I'll just make it sound like maybe they're being dodgy about following the law, then."

Its a fairly standard reporter trick, but it's sleazy nonetheless: "At press time, we've received no answer from the man about when he stopped beating his wife."

> > How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

> I didn't say that either.

I now realize that this language could be misconstrued. I wasn't literally talking about "you". I meant it as "how one gets from that statement to..", and I was talking about the reporters.