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Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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593 points geox | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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0xy[dead post] ◴[02 Jul 25 22:12 UTC] No.44449405[source]▶
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anigbrowl ◴[02 Jul 25 22:38 UTC] No.44449580[source]▶
Yeah we should definitely make policy based on claims from 15 year old Fox News articles, which are famous for their even-handedness and lack of editorial bias.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/u-s-climate-data-compromised...

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1. aspenmayer ◴[03 Jul 25 07:55 UTC] No.44452682[source]▶
Here’s something from 2024. It’s not heat sources, but tampering with rain gauges in this case.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/patrich-esch-ed-dean-jage... ( https://archive.is/jBh8H )

> Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.

> The sordid story of two ranchers who conspired to falsify drought numbers by tampering with rain gauges on the plains of Colorado and Kansas, resulting in millions in false insurance claims