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Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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595 points geox | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.314s | source
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timr[dead post] ◴[02 Jul 25 23:34 UTC] No.44449975[source]▶
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roxolotl ◴[02 Jul 25 23:44 UTC] No.44450046[source]▶
Is it really that unreasonable to believe that a government run by people who’ve regularly called climate change a hoax and has a history of pulling previously public data is pulling the public data about climate change? I don’t disagree that jumping to conclusions is bad but intentionally discounting prior behavior seems just as reckless to me.
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1. timr ◴[03 Jul 25 13:52 UTC] No.44455099[source]▶
I’m not “discounting prior behavior”, I’m just not getting exorcised over shutdown of a website, particularly when the explanation is likely to be incompetence.

Be real: do you honestly believe that this website was influencing any marginal opinions? I don’t. Most of the people here who are so outraged likely had no idea that this website existed before today.

This is a case where a website is a political flag, and one side is upset that the other side took down their flag. It’s all just tedious and dumb, has only tangential relationship to science, and makes exactly no difference to the world.