• Trump administration to turn off EPA's Data Service
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[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html"]http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html[/URL] Not the best source but I couldn't find another: [QUOTE]Donald Trump is to completely shut down one of the government's most important data services. The Environmental Protection Agency's Open Data Web service – which stores information on climate change, life cycle assessment, health impact analysis and environmental justice – is to have its funding removed and will no longer be in operation, according to people working on the plan. That will mean that citizens will no longer be able to access information on their environment and climate, keeping them from researching potentially fatal changes to their area. The service stores data including detailed toxic chemical information, which allows citizens to look up whether there has been a dangerous spill in their area over the last 30 years. The funding is likely to have been removed as part of the Trump administration's focus on removing climate and energy safeguards, and undermining much of the work of the EPA. The service will go dark on Friday, bringing an end to the US government's biggest civilian-linked data service. ... On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said. On Friday, Trump is expected to sign an order to review areas available for offshore oil and gas exploration, as well as rules governing offshore drilling.[/QUOTE] :angry:
promise kept, lets remember this for the trial for crimes against humanity.
[QUOTE=Sableye;52144067]promise kept, lets remember this for the trial for crimes against humanity.[/QUOTE] People who think that the anti-environment Conservatives will all change their mind once the world is irreversibly fucked and Florida is completely underwater vastly underestimate how fucking stupid these conservatives are.
I'm glad we predicted this. So many people have crawled the whole system and backed up the data. It's depressing that it has come to this.
didn't the same thing happen in Canada?
Trump's administration is doing its best to become as opaque as possible. People can't try to hold them accountable if they can't see what's going on.
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;52144074]People who think that the anti-environment Conservatives will all change their mind once the world is irreversibly fucked and Florida is completely underwater vastly underestimate how fucking stupid these conservatives are.[/QUOTE] They won't change their mind, but their state of freedom will probably change, from scot-free to chained up for all eternity. Or, more likely, they'll probably be torn limb from limb by frumious would-be revolutionaries and home-grown "terrorists".
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;52144074]People who think that the anti-environment Conservatives will all change their mind once the world is irreversibly fucked and Florida is completely underwater vastly underestimate how fucking stupid these conservatives are.[/QUOTE] Question, when is that expected to happen even? Al Gore gave us about 10 years in his movie (An Inconvient Truth) and his prediction wound up totally wrong as we're still here.
Hopeflly google will pick up the clack here and upload all of the EPA services to their network, undermining Trump's weak attempt at blinding us from what he want's to do to the world.
What's the justification for this? I checked out the article and it's because rolling back environmental protection, but why?
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;52144201]Hopeflly google will pick up the clack here and upload all of the EPA services to their network, undermining Trump's weak attempt at blinding us from what he want's to do to the world.[/QUOTE] Google won't do shit. Pornhub might, though. It seems like a Pornhub sort of thing to do. Or Wikipedia. But my bets are on Pornhub.
Fuck this guy, this is just blatantly evil.
[url]https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view[/url] [quote]opendata.epa.gov says: The data on this Web site will continue to be available on April 28, 2017.[/quote]
What does the Trump administration do when the greatest threat in modern human history is barreling down on us like a freight train? They pull the curtains closed and turn around. They try to distract people with stupid scare stories about Muslim Terrorists, Immigrant Rapists, and Lawless Black Thugs. They appeal to the nostalgia for a Golden Age that never was because their primary constituents won't live long enough to see the hellish consequences facing our actual future. They leave tomorrow's problems to tomorrow's world while they shove as much money in their pockets as they can today. Honestly makes me sick.
it's time to march to Washington
[QUOTE=Riller;52144303]Google won't do shit. Pornhub might, though. It seems like a Pornhub sort of thing to do. Or Wikipedia. But my bets are on Pornhub.[/QUOTE] Well a lot of people including me would be sad if amateur teen public fucks in the forest disappeared with the forests.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52144351]What does the Trump administration do when the greatest threat in modern human history is barreling down on us like a freight train? They pull the curtains closed and turn around. They try to distract people with stupid scare stories about Muslim Terrorists, Immigrant Rapists, and Lawless Black Thugs. They appeal to the nostalgia for a Golden Age that never was because their primary constituents won't live long enough to see the hellish consequences of our actual future. They leave tomorrow's problems to tomorrow's world while they arrive to shove as much money in their pockets as they can today. Honestly makes me sick.[/QUOTE] It's people like them who ought to be made an example of. Not a bloody example, but a humiliating, degrading, horrifying example. A message to the electronic old men that says "if you continue this course of selfish self-interest at the cost of all else, we will take everything you have and drag you down to the lowest of the low", a very tangible and potent threat that they cannot hope to surmount without actively drowning the world in the blood of millions.
[QUOTE=sYnced;52144363]it's time to march to Washington[/QUOTE] With torches, pitchforks, and a hell of a lot of rope.
[QUOTE=ironman17;52144380]It's people like them who ought to be made an example of. Not a bloody example, but a humiliating, degrading, horrifying example. A message to the electronic old men that says "if you continue this course of selfish self-interest at the cost of all else, we will take everything you have and drag you down to the lowest of the low", a very tangible and potent threat that they cannot hope to surmount, without actively drowning the world in the blood of millions.[/QUOTE] I am fully in favor of international courts declaring political action against reasonable climate change preparation and education efforts to be a crime against humanity and prosecuting these people as criminals. Even if it's only symbolic, the world has got to put its fucking foot down. Enough is enough! Climate change is a proven scientific fact, and the consequences of ignoring it are immense. Worldwide economic collapse, mass starvation, the greatest refugee crisis of all time, the loss of dozens of major coastal cities around the world, and so on. Right wing US politicians are endangering the entire world for personal profit and political power. That cannot be abided.
[QUOTE=Snapster;52144330][url]https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view[/url][/QUOTE] Good catch, article has been updated: [QUOTE]Since this story was first published, that message has been updated to read: "The data on this Web site will continue to be available on April 28, 2017". The EPA also tweeted to say that the website wasn't going anywhere and that it is "open, working and not going anywhere", though it seemed to be experiencing occasional outages.[/QUOTE] The British Independent probably jumped the gun but at the same time, the EPA needing to clarify this seems a bit worrying. Mods might want to lock the thread?
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52144417]Good catch, article has been updated: The British Independent probably jumped the gun but at the same time, the EPA needing to clarify this seems a bit worrying. Mods might want to lock the thread?[/QUOTE] I'll lock the thread since the situation has been updated.
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