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Read About Attacks on Climate and Energy Data and Research

Since human-caused changes to the Earth’s climate were first identified in the late 1800s, the scientific community has continually advanced its understanding of the processes underlying observed changes, the potential impacts, and solutions.

Scientists are confident that we are living through the warmest period in human history and that human activities are the main cause of climate change.

Climate science has developed due in great part to the persistent, skeptical nature of the scientific method; the dedication and mission of its practitioners; and a bounty of data and analysis. New observations and data spark scientists to hypothesize, analyze, and draw conclusions, as well as feed additional study.

The U.S. Congress has long funded and defended this cycle of discovery (see 1970s legislative action below The National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367}. Since the 1970s a solid foundation of climate and energy data, earth science research have occurred supported on a bipartisan basis. Nonpartisan federal career staff have managed the programs; and scientists in government and academia have advanced their findings in the United States and abroad, underpinning the international understanding of and response to the climate challenge. These champions understand the benefits of the scientific endeavor and the urgent need to combat climate change.

The abundance of climate and energy data and their increasingly diverse sources, levels of precision, and wide range of practical applications have increased Americans’ understanding of the global climate system and benefitted users from a wide range of fields, including scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and farmers, among others.

Yet, this progress was summarily halted in 2016 by the incoming Trump administration in a break from the past.

President Trump and his allies sought nothing less than to 'burn the data', to end the studies, terminate the missions, the earth science research, to delete the climate information on government websites and to attack the validity of basic and applied research.

By targeting climate and energy data and research, the persistent, well-funded, industry-connected fringe of commentators, policymakers, and researchers who deny the science and reality of climate change sowed doubt about published and accepted research and sought to tear up the scientific apparatus, root and branch.

By creating gaps in data, forcing out the federal science workforce, changing how science is used to make decisions, and undermining the performance of federal scientific endeavors and partnerships, Trump and his allies seek to erode public confidence in climate science and in facts themselves.

Refusing to acknowledge that climate change poses unprecedented threats to the lives, livelihoods, security, and safety of the American people, these attacks on science were not just a matter of transparency or advocacy — the attacks were attacks on life and on survival.

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D.J. Wuebbles and others, “Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I” (Washington: U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2017), available at

• https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/executive-summary/

Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007). ↩

NOAA, “History of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center,” available at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/National-Climatic-Data-Center-History-Brochure-October-2014.pdf (last accessed May 2018); Norman A. Phillips, “The General Circulation of the Atmosphere: A Numerical Experiment,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 82 (352) (1956): 123–164, available at https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/qj.49708235202; Paul N. Edwards, “History of Climate Modeling,” WIREs Climate Change 2 (1) (2010): 128–139, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wcc.95. ↩ Ibid. ↩

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “The Atmosphere around Climate Models,” available at https://str.llnl.gov/december-2017/bader (last accessed May 2018). ↩

GreenPolicy Siterunner / SJS:

To understand the history of U.S. "National Climate Legislation", we must look to the beginnings of the U.S. climate science work in the 1970s.

Congressman George Brown, from Los Angeles, stood out, having trained in physics and as an engineer.

Your GreenPolicy360 siterunner became a friend, which grew over the years until the Congressman's death in 1999.

Please read about 'My friend George': https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

Congressman Brown Out in Front of Climate Action

George Brown proposed and drafted the legislation of the first U.S. National Climate Program and shepherded its passage in 1978.

The National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367

National Climate Program Act, 1978 / PDF

The first federal program established to study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change.

At the Beginning of U.S. Science on Global Warming, Strategies & Planning

Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360

1978, the First Climate Actions

National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367

National Climate Program Act of September 1978

In 1979 came the first follow-on National Science Academy report. This study and report of national scientists was prescient and accurate in its global warming predictions.

A critically important understanding of the Congressman, that I remember his emphasizing over and over, was the need for "facts" -- he would say we need facts to guide our work, our policy work, our planning work and I will push and push and push the earth science and atmospheric science missions.

George believed that "data" was essential to sound decisions and in tackling the climate problem that was coming into view in the 1970s, he believed in his role on the science and technology, and space, committees that he would soon become chairman of and guide for years, that a database of facts, evidence, measuring and monitoring would provide the future generation with the knowledge base needed to make sound decisions. He was right on the mark, although he did not see the era that came into existence with the internet and spreading of mis- and dis-information.

'Today's social media and cyber-manipulation and -conflict, and deep online cyber-politics and cyber-warfare is now spreading, on multiple fronts, a barrage of bad data and as we see in the Trump years in office, a purposeful 'burning of the data'. The interruption of data gathering, science and facts, information and trendlines, is very dangerous and rises to the level of political malfeasance.

The struggles today, the dissension and, as Hannah Arendt described years ago, the belief that 'opinions are facts' and lies can be believed if told often enough, must be a priority to advance logic, reason, and democratic governance. These are challenging times in which we live...'

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For the more detailed history on the efforts to build resources to confront the challenges today, here are details to review...

In 1987, Congress gave the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department authorities to develop climate change policy, shifting those activities from the Reagan White House. Despite signing the Global Climate Protection Act of 1987, then-President Ronald Reagan redirected management of climate research to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Committee on Earth Sciences.

In 1990, a General Accountability Office investigation of progress on climate change research revealed the Reagan administration had neither coordinated national climate policy nor tasked an individual agency with doing so effectively. See National Climate Program Act 17 U.S.C. §2901-2908 (1978), available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title15/html/USCODE-2011-title15-chap56.htm; Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989, Public Law 100-204, 100th Cong., 1st sess. (December 22, 1987), available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-101/pdf/STATUTE-101-Pg1331.pdf; Government Accountability Office, “Global Warming: Administration Approach Cautious Pending Validation of Threat,” GAO-90-63, Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, January 1990, available at https://www.gao.gov/assets/150/148577.pdf; Global Change Research Act of 1990, Public Law 101-606, 101st Cong., 1st session. (November 16, 1990), available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-104/pdf/STATUTE-104-Pg3096.pdf. ↩

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The National Climate Assessment documents the changes observed and projected for the United States due to climate change. The most recent National Climate Assessment issued a stark warning that climate change, while beneficial in some cases, threatens our way of life across every sector and region. Its development process involved more than 300 expert authors, a 60-member advisory committee, and many support staff. The USGCRP also convenes experts and issues reports on individual topics, including, for example, a 2016 report on the relationships between climate change and human health. In 1989, the first annual Our Changing Planet report definitively linked climate change to human activities; called for further research on the underlying biogeochemical and social processes that contribute to it; and supported international collaboration on climate and energy data, monitoring, and analysis.

The most recent report highlighted advances in understanding Earth processes driving observed trends as well as enhanced abilities to measure and forecast impacts with increasing regional and sectoral specificity. See also Global Change Research Act of 1990; U.S. Global Change Research Program, “Fourth National Climate Assessment Update: May 2018,” available at https://www.globalchange.gov/news/fourth-national-climate-assessment-update-may-2018-0 (last accessed May 2018); U.S. Global Change Research Program, “Reports Library,” available at https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/reports (last accessed May 2018); National Climate Assessment, “Climate Change Impacts in the United States,” available at https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/ (last accessed May 2018); U.S. Global Change Research Program, “The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment,” available at https://health2016.globalchange.gov/ (last accessed May 2018); Our Changing Planet 1990; Our Changing Planet 2017. ↩

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Paul Voosen, “Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts,” Science Magazine, May 9, 2018, available at http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/trump-white-house-quietly-cancels-nasa-research-verifying-greenhouse-gas-cuts. ↩

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Brittany Patterson, “Government Scientist Blocked from Talking about Climate and Wildfires.” ↩

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