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Theyve only been there for two and a half weeks but weve already got patterns and weve already seen a bunch of these things where they have made a sweeping radical unannounced decision to disappear data or gag public servants or do something else that shocks people and when the action gets noticed and theres a reaction their m.o. is to reverse themselves and say they never meant to do that shocking things in the first place. we saw it happen already with the health and human services agency. the...

Their work with anyone including members of congress. they werent even allowed to respond to requests for information from members of congress or congressional committees. they tried that with awhich he is -- hhs. happened with the epa when they circulated plans to remove the climate data from the epa web site. an epa employee publicized that instruction, they got obviously huge pushback then they reversed that decision. they climbed down, left the data up there. happened also at the department ...

Yesterday we woke up to this headline in reuters. trump administration tells epa to cut climate change page from its website. the reuters said that the climate change page including a myriad of data that could be disappeared that very day, except cue public outrage and by night fall this was the headline. trump administration backs off plan to scrub climate pages from epa website. this stuff could still disappear. the administration, you know, says everything is subject to review. and a warning ...

Government and people in the civil service to the things that we know about the climate? i mean, how much of that is coming from a federal government that will now be run by someone who has said that its all a chinese hoax? >> its true that the federal government plays a huge role especially when you look at the paris agreement but also in the sort of knowledge of climate change -- >> thats what i mean, the data. >> absolutely. >> how much are we dependent on different people in the federal gove...

Or the u.s. geological survey. theyre providing all sorts of climate data that can help us provide solutions to grow food without those crops failing because of climate change and so on and so forth. it is under threat. we do this as a superimportant message that we hope president-elect trump understands. climate science is vital to national security. >> how under threat it is? i guess we havent been in these territories before. but how much could it be the case that a new administration would j...

Thats barely a mortgage cycle away. >> the effects are already visible along the shoreline. >> we have had about a foot of sea level rise in the last 85 years. globally in south florida, and so that has destabilized all of the beaches and barrier islands everywhere. >> renderings created from climate data show a bleak outcome for iconic ocean drive in the coming centuries. >> out in the coast were starting to get high tide flooding. when the moon goes full the tides come up higher than they used...

Over the last 40-some years or 50 years, whatever it is, and putting things into space, weve had a lot of debris come down, sometimes 100 objects a year or more, but weve had only one person brushed on the shoulder by a light piece of debris in all of that time. >> in fact, your chances of being hit by that space junk, according to the experts, about one and 22 trillion, kelly. by the way, this particular satellite launched 20-some odd years ago and it was sent up there to gather climate data, u...

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Launched from space shuttle "discovery". its mission was to collect climate data and study the ozone lair 4 layelayer until it ran o. were told tonight that the 740 million dollar satellite entered the earths atmosphere just before 1 a.m. eastern time west of north america over the pacific ocean and likely burned up on reentry. experts say there was never really a need for concern because this actually happened quite frequently. >> theres a lot of junk up there. theres a lot of extra satellites....

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