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The EPA Won't Be Shutting Down Its Open Data Website After All (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article: Scientists and data experts are closely tracking the websites of federal agencies, noting changes to pages dealing with climate change and energy since President Donald Trump took office. On Monday, they noticed an alarming message posted to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) open data website, indicating it would shut down on Friday, April 28. [...] By Monday afternoon, visitors to Open Data received a different pop-up notification, which clarifies that data on the site will still be available come Friday.
No doubt climate skeptics are facepalming everywhere to hear the climate alarmists suddenly very concerned about public accessibility for data that affects public policy. This comes of course after arguing for years that the likes of Michael Mann and Phil Jones didn't need to release the data and algorithms behind their papers, but should drive public policy anyway, because science!