Just found out my country blocked a climate report last year

I was digging through some archived news sites last night and stumbled onto a mention of a 2023 climate impact study that never made it to our local papers. Turns out the government blocked it from broadcast and online outlets because it showed how fast sea levels are rising near our coast. I found the actual PDF through a university library in another country. Has anyone else run into a blocked report they had to search overseas for?

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emma7683d ago

Oh man that is wild! I had something similar happen with a report on salmon die-offs in our rivers. Our state agriculture board basically sat on a study from 2021 that showed how fertilizer runoff was nuking the fish populations. I only found out about it because a friend at a university in Canada sent me the PDF. Its crazy how governments can just bury stuff like that. The salmon thing wasnt even about sea levels but it shows how they pick and choose what info gets out there. Did the blocked report mention any specific timelines for the sea level rise?

robin_wright3d agoMost Upvoted

Emma I really gotta push back on lumping these two things together. You said "it shows how they pick and choose what info gets out there" and I think that's way too simple. My report got blocked because the methodology was honestly garbage. I'm not saying your salmon study was sketchy but a study getting buried doesn't always mean conspiracy. Sometimes the science just isn't solid. Governments do bad stuff for sure but not everything is them hiding the truth. More often it's just people disagreeing on what the numbers actually mean.