CITATION: Disappearing climate science
The Lancet Planetary Health; Editorial, Volume 9, Issue 2e79 February 2025 Open access
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(25)00030-0/fulltext
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At the time of writing, a spate of executive orders [from President Trump] and political appointments are disrupting and dismantling progress across the climate and environmental science community.
Federal agencies, like the US Department of Agriculture, have taken down web pages that reference climate change...
President Trump has declared a national energy emergency and encouraged the expansion of drilling for oil and gas...
An executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion activities has suspended all federal jobs and programmes related to environmental justice... The suppression of scientific terms related to the environment and to sexuality or gender is a chilling and ironic curtailment of free speech by politicians that proport to be its champions.
President Trump has ordered a US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and stopped all climate aid to foreign countries...
Amongst this turbulence, it is vital that researchers, regional and local actors, the private sector, uphold and follow the evidence on climate and environmental change and be clear: hiding from the reality of climate change will only harm Americans and the wider world.
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HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org