Extreme Temperature Diary- Thursday December 11th, 2025/Main Topic: Trump EPA Removes All Mention of Human-Caused Climate Crisis From Public Webpages – Guy On Climate
Dear Diary. Sometimes I believe that demons can inhabit human souls. It seems as if one is in Trump’s brain, which is doing its evil worst to bring down our climate and cause much more human suffering. Case in point this week is Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency scrubbing all mention of human caused climate change from their web sites. Since more gullible people won’t read true science on the EPA sites, they may come to the conclusion that nothing is wrong, thus delaying the much-needed transition to renewables to fix our climate problems. The true demons are fossil fuel interests who put money into Trump’s campaign coffers and bought his soul.
Human activity is driving climate change; that’s a fact. But the EPA has quietly removed that information from a web page explaining climate change’s causes.
I spoke with @weatherwest.bsky.social about the change & why it's particularly concerning
www.fastcompany.com/91458319/epa... — Kristin Toussaint (@ktoussaint.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T15:43:40.282Z
Here are more details from Common Dreams.
‘Attack on Independent Science’: Trump EPA Removes All Mention of Human-Caused Climate Crisis From Public Webpages | Common Dreams
 Svínafellsjökull Glacier in Iceland, which is rapidly melting due to climate change, is seen on November 4, 2025. (Photo by NPHOTOS/Getty Images)
‘Attack on Independent Science’: Trump EPA Removes All Mention of Human-Caused Climate Crisis From Public WebpagesClimate scientist Daniel Swain called it “a deliberate effort to misinform.” Stephen Prager
Dec 09, 2025
The Trump administration has removed all references to human-caused climate change from Environmental Protection Agency webpages, as well as large amounts of data showing the dramatic warming of the climate over recent decades and the resulting risks.
According to a Tuesday report from the Washington Post, one page on the “Causes of Climate Change” stated as recently as October that “it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land,” a statement that reflects the overwhelming consensus in peer-reviewed literature on climate.
That statement is now nowhere to be found, with those that remain only mentioning “natural” causes of planetary warming like volcanic activity and variations in solar activity.
“The new, near-exclusive emphasis on natural causes of climate change on the EPA’s website is now completely out of sync with all available evidence demonstrating overwhelming human influence on contemporary warming trends,” explained Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, who posted about the changes on social media.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC), which examines tens of thousands of studies from around the globe, found that virtually all warming since the dawn of the industrial era can be attributed to human carbon emissions.
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
— Daniel Swain (@weatherwest.bsky.social) 2025-12-08T17:50:22.000Z
“This is, I think, one of the more dramatic scrubbings we’ve seen so far in the climate space,” said Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social, a climate scientist @ucanr.edu, reports @shannonosaka.bsky.social wapo.st/4pXFvDw — Pam Kan-Rice (@ucanrpam.bsky.social) 2025-12-09T17:47:52.647Z
Pages about the catastrophic results of climate change have also been scrubbed: One of them allowed users to view several climate change indicators, like the historic decline of Arctic sea ice and glaciers and the increased rates of coastal flooding due to rising sea levels. That page has been deleted entirely.
Another page, which answered frequently asked questions about climate change, now no longer includes questions like, “Is there scientific consensus that human activities are causing today’s climate change?” “How can people reduce the risks of climate change?” and “Who is most at risk from the impacts of climate change?” The page provides no indication that climate change is a human-caused phenomenon, instead only discussing natural factors.
That page links to another that has since been deleted. It once provided extensive information about the risks climate change poses to human health, “from increasing the risk of extreme heat events and heavy storms to increasing the risk of asthma attacks and changing the spread of certain diseases carried by ticks and mosquitoes.” Another deleted page discussed the impacts of climate change on children’s health and low-income populations.
“This is, I think, one of the more dramatic scrubbings we’ve seen so far in the climate space,” said Swain. “This website is now completely incorrect regarding the changes in climate that we’re seeing today and their causes… It’s clearly a deliberate effort to misinform.”
During his 2024 campaign for reelection, President Donald Trump and his affiliated super political action committees received more than $96 million in direct contributions from oil and gas industry donors, according to a January report from Climate Power. Since retaking office, he has moved to dramatically expand the extraction and use of planet-heating fossil fuels while eliminating investment in clean energy and electric vehicles.
Rachel Cleetus, senior policy director for the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said, “Deleting and distorting this scientific information only serves to give a free pass to fossil fuel polluters who are raking in profits even as communities reel from extreme heatwaves, record-breaking floods, intensified storms, and catastrophic wildfires.”
Cleetus said that the purging of climate information from EPA sites was a prelude to “the likely overturning of the endangerment finding, a legal and scientific foundation for standards to limit the heat-trapping emissions driving climate change and threatening human health.”
In July, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin unveiled a proposal to rescind the 2009 finding, which determined that climate change endangers human life and serves as the legal basis for greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act.
Undermining climate science is core to that effort, which Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M, said at the time, “could unravel virtually every US climate regulation on the books, from car emissions standards to power plant rules.”
Shortly after Zeldin announced the rule change, the Department of Energy cobbled together a “Climate Working Group” comprising five authors handpicked by Secretary Chris Wright to produce a climate report that disputes the IPCC’s findings and the scientific consensus on climate change.
The report did not undergo peer review and omitted around 99% of the scientific literature the IPCC relied on for its comprehensive findings. A group of climate scientists that independently reviewed the paper found that it “exhibits pervasive problems with misrepresentation and selective citation of the scientific literature, cherry-picking of data, and faulty or absent statistics.”
Cleetus said Tuesday that “EPA is trying to bury the evidence on human-caused climate change, but it cannot change the reality of climate science or the harsh toll climate impacts are taking on people’s lives… This isn’t just about data on a website; it’s an attack on independent science and scientific integrity.”
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Here are some “ETs” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
For the sixth time in sixth months, global temps have come in just behind the record-smashing pace of 2023 + 2024. And that's w/La Niña conditions in place, which tend to bring down global temps slightly. An update from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/3rd-... — Bob Henson (@bhensonweather.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T17:51:28.996Z
This evening's virtual office hour turned into a full 90 minute session on recent global climate trends! If you want to hear more about my thoughts on where we are & where we're headed, including context re: record-breaking global warmth, check it out: — Daniel Swain (@weatherwest.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T01:20:40.000Z
Catastrophic flooding in BC and WA is putting thousands at risk.
We’ve always had heavy rain and floods; but as the world warms, they’re becoming more frequent and severe. And it was a UVic research team that ID'd the human fingerprint in increasing extreme precip. www.nature.com/articles/nat... — Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com) 2025-12-11T16:54:09.472Z
More on what's happening in BC, where major highways connecting B.C.’s Lower Mainland to the Interior have been closed. — Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com) 2025-12-11T17:28:39.029Z
Catastrophic flooding in Washington state sees 100,000 people told to evacuate — The Independent (@the-independent.com) 2025-12-11T16:47:54.489Z
Growing more common as the climate warms, once-rare “atmospheric rivers” could ultimately accelerate ice loss.
www.science.org/content/arti... — David Harvey (@topladave.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T16:16:02.763Z
"Meteorologist debunks misleading claims about major trend" by Ren Venkatesh for #TheCoolDown (featuring Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz): www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/h... — Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T15:40:25.287Z
You’ve heard of 12 days of Christmas…but how about 20 days of Starter Packs?
Here’s Day 3: Comms Experts!
Climate's one of the most politically polarized issues out there. These are the experts I rely on to understand the science of identity, values, and how humans filter and process information. — Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com) 2025-12-11T16:45:55.739Z
Day 1: — Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com) 2025-12-11T16:46:50.139Z
An incredible weather day across the West! Co-occurring w/long-duration & extremely moist #AtmosphericRiver bringing widespread/locally record flooding in PacNW is record-warm airmass region-wide (yet, meanwhile, CA's Central Valley remains damp & cold under dense tule fog). — Daniel Swain (@weatherwest.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T22:51:53.000Z
New: strong language from the National Weather Service this morning regarding flood risk in western Washington today: "Locally catastrophic flooding impacts are possible along the Skagit and Snohomish Rivers." #WAwx — Daniel Swain (@weatherwest.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T14:48:41.177Z
New post: Under resilient ridge, prolonged tule fog episode brings cold & damp weather to Central Valley but anomalously warm/dry weather elsewhere. Plus, update on what turned out to be record-wet autumn in some spots & PacNW flood risk this wk. elsewhere. — Daniel Swain (@weatherwest.bsky.social) 2025-12-06T23:46:18.000Z
An atmospheric river continues to drench the Pacific Northwest in heavy rainfall, resulting in a widespread flooding threat across western Washington.
This timelapse since the beginning of the week shows the relentless plume of moisture that has soaked the region. — (@cira-csu.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T23:40:06.866Z
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California's Central Valley has been shrouded in Tule fog for the last 16 days. — (@cira-csu.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T18:01:48.851Z
Snowbirds flocking to #Florida right now.
This weekend will be brutally mild 🙂 down here… and brutally #cold in the Midwest.
Seriously, the cold in Chicago, Minneapolis etc… will be dangerous, even for them.
Morning wind chills as low as -40F and actual lows as low as -20F in the Upper Midwest. — Jeff Berardelli (@weatherprof.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T17:47:46.567Z
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www.reuters.com/sustainabili... — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T18:24:59.075Z
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You Blue Sky-ers are a very educated bunch so you may know this already. But it’s a super cool fact that still blows my mind. 25K years ago, during the height of the ice age, sea levels were 400+ feet lower. You had to travel 100 miles further to get to “Clearwater Beach” and #Florida was 2X bigger! — Jeff Berardelli (@weatherprof.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T16:58:35.008Z
A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even corruption
go.nature.com/4acdXWm — Nature (@nature.com) 2025-12-11T15:50:00.788Z
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