LibGuides: ENVS 398 1 SS: Climate Chng, Health, Food: Library Warm-up Activity

Climate Change and the EPA website

The EPA’s Climate Change webpage was taken down in April 2017 after more than twenty years. The message, "This page is being updated," was left in its place. Please evaluate the EPA’s website and its treatment of climate change during the Trump, Obama, and Bush presidencies.

EPA
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Climate Change homepage - today
"We want to help you find what you are looking for."
Climate Change homepage - September 27, 2018 (Trump)
"This page is being updated. Thank you for your interest in this topic. We are currently updating our website to reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt." (This website capture is from the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.)
Climate Change homepage - January 19, 2017 (Obama)
This website is historical material reflecting the EPA website as it existed on January 19, 2017. This website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work."
Climate Change homepage - January 31, 2008 (Bush)
This website capture is from the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.

Tools

Internet Archive - Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive has been archiving the web for 20 years and has preserved billions of webpages from millions of websites.
If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine
End of Term Web Archive
The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. Beginning in 2008, the EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
DataRefuge
Building refuge for federal climate & environmental data (data sets)
Perma.cc
Link rot destroys the integrity of your citations. Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite. Perma.cc is simple, free to use, and is built and supported by libraries.

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The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
This source is useful for keeping up with all the changes to the EPA website.

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EDGI is monitoring changes to tens of thousands of federal environmental agency web pages because the effects of proposed changes to federal environmental governance under the current administration could be sweeping and long-lasting. Our work here involves documenting and analyzing data that disappears from public view, and also monitoring and analyzing how data, information, and their presentation may change, sometimes in subtle but significant ways.
Changing the digital climate
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative. (2018, January). Changing The digital climate:
How climate change web content is being censored under the Trump administration. Retrieved from http://100days.envirodatagov.org/changing-digital-climate/
Turbulence ahead: US science faces a political storm, and early-career researchers should prepare themselves.
Rosen, J. (2017). Turbulence ahead: US science faces a political storm, and early-career researchers should prepare themselves. Nature, 544, 509–511. doi:10.1038/nj7651-509a

When Science and Politics Collide by Robert O. Schneider
Call Number: MAIN STACKS Q175.52.U5 S285 2018
When Ideology Trumps Science by Brent S. Steel; Erika Allen Wolters
Call Number: eBook and print (MAIN STACKS Q175.52.U5 W65 2018)

Looking for Climate Information?

Climate.gov
NOAA (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
Climate Change
United Nations
Climate Change Indicators in the United States
EPA website
Climate Mirror
an open project to mirror public climate datasets
Data.gov
GlobalChange.gov
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
National Centers for Environmental Information
National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is responsible for preserving, monitoring, assessing, and providing public access to the Nation's treasure of climate and historical weather data and information. Formerly the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
Climate Feedback
A group of scientists who vet mainstream reporting on climate change. They use web annotation software to highlight online evidence, attach notes to the highlights, and discuss the cited passages on the open web.