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Park Service's "Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy" an online sensation!


Jefferson Memorial and Tidal Basin, Washington DC

The transition to the new presidential administration of Donald Trump has led to the fear among many of potential suppression of scientific data, particularly data related to climate change. In 2016, as the centennial year of the agency was coming to a close, the US National Park Service published a report "Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy" (the report can be found at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/climatechange/upload/ClimateChange_01-05_DigitalPrelim.pdf

As of the end of January, the report had become the most downloaded report from any US federal website, showing great interest and concern by scientists and the public alike.

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Top Download from any federal site right now is Park Service report on climate change

By Sarah Kaplan

The Washington Post

January 27, 2017

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