Chelsea Clinton Slams Trump Admin's Scrubbing Of Climate Change Mentions From Websites
- 6 years ago
Chelsea Clinton on Friday slammed the Trump administration for the removal of "climate change" mentions from government websites.
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton on Friday slammed the Trump administration for the removal of "climate change" mentions from government websites.
"Deleting the words 'climate change' from federal websites doesn't delete #climatechange," Clinton tweeted. "It only undermines our ability to effectively respond to the crisis."
In her tweet, Clinton referred to a New York Times piece which mentions a recently released report by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), an organization "comprised of academics and non-profit employees that promotes open and accessible government data."
Among its many key findings, EDGI notes in the report that "language about climate change has been systematically changed across multiple agency and program websites. In many cases, explicit mentions of 'climate change' and 'greenhouse gases' have been replaced by vaguer terms such as 'sustainability' and 'emissions.'"
The report comes days after President Trump's widely criticized tweet on global warming.
"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!" Trump wrote.
Axios noted in response, "Climate change science is much more complicated than that, but citing cold weather is still a favorite line of politicians and others who doubt climate change is happening."
President Trump has long expressed skepticism about climate change, even calling it a hoax in the past.
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton on Friday slammed the Trump administration for the removal of "climate change" mentions from government websites.
"Deleting the words 'climate change' from federal websites doesn't delete #climatechange," Clinton tweeted. "It only undermines our ability to effectively respond to the crisis."
In her tweet, Clinton referred to a New York Times piece which mentions a recently released report by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), an organization "comprised of academics and non-profit employees that promotes open and accessible government data."
Among its many key findings, EDGI notes in the report that "language about climate change has been systematically changed across multiple agency and program websites. In many cases, explicit mentions of 'climate change' and 'greenhouse gases' have been replaced by vaguer terms such as 'sustainability' and 'emissions.'"
The report comes days after President Trump's widely criticized tweet on global warming.
"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!" Trump wrote.
Axios noted in response, "Climate change science is much more complicated than that, but citing cold weather is still a favorite line of politicians and others who doubt climate change is happening."
President Trump has long expressed skepticism about climate change, even calling it a hoax in the past.