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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,732 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:57 PM Dec 2025

Trump's EPA is wiping mention of human-caused climate change from its website

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to human-caused climate change from its website - tweaking some pages to focus on the “natural processes” driving climate change and wiping other pages from the internet.

In October, the EPA page on “Causes of Climate Change,” for example, included a statement from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that noted, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land.”

That clear statement has been deleted from the page, which now mentions only climate changes from natural sources, such as volcanic activity and variations in solar activity.

“This is, I think, one of the more dramatic scrubbings we’ve seen so far in the climate space,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, in an online live chat with reporters and followers. “More and more pages have either been completely removed from the public internet - or perhaps worse, have been replaced with inaccurate information.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/epa-wiping-mention-human-caused-161508486.html

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Trump's EPA is wiping mention of human-caused climate change from its website (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2025 OP
The next Democratic / democratic President will have a lot of shit to Jack Valentino Dec 2025 #1
EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites muriel_volestrangler Dec 2025 #2

muriel_volestrangler

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2. EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 08:58 AM
Dec 2025
The website now directs visitors to a subsection on climate “causes” that mentions only natural phenomena as the drivers of warming, like changes in the Earth’s orbit and variations in solar activity. Two subsections titled “Climate Change Indicators” and “Climate Change Impacts and Analysis” have been removed.
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“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” the earlier version of the website stated.

It also gave an over-95 percent probability that “human activities have been the dominant cause” of observable global warming since the 1950s. It also included charts outlining human emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping pollution.
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“Natural processes are always influencing the earth’s climate and can explain climate changes prior to the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s,” it stated on Monday. “However, recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone.”

But the page makes no mention of people’s contribution to climate change. It discusses only “natural processes” including changes to the Earth’s orbit and rotation, variations in solar activity, changes in the planet’s reflectivity, volcanic activity and naturally occurring greenhouse gases.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-erases-references-to-human-caused-climate-change-from-websites/

And I have to say, that, with this quote in the OP's Yahoo/WP article, Brigit Hirsch has catapulted herself into the top rank of complete shitheads who should be sent back to kindergarten and not allowed to proceed until they can behave as a normal 6 year old child:

“Unlike the previous administration, the Trump EPA is focused on protecting human health and the environment while Powering the Great American Comeback, not left-wing political agendas,” Brigit Hirsch, EPA press secretary, wrote in an email. “As such, this agency no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult.”

Fuck you, Brigit. You're a waste of oxygen.
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