The United States Forest Service as well as the United States Department of Agriculture have both been ordered to take down any website references to a climate crisis. This seems to rely on the adage 'out of sight, out of mind'. Or hoping the public won't notice, if instructions to 'drill, baby drill', endangers them and their homes (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-order-usda-websites-climate-crisis). Unfortunately, climate change is a reality. One can argue about the relative merits of linking any one extreme weather event to human-mediated global heating, but fires, floods and exceptional storms are resolutely increasing in both frequency and intensity. All the markers, including atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, melting ice, rising sea levels and record ambient temperatures, support the contention we are in a climate crisis. It's not only ostriches, who apparently stick their heads in the sand? Some humans have very short attention spans. I wonder how much more of inconvenient science will be rewritten.
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