Present climate data without adjustments favoring either side
What the document says“Data collected by the department should be presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate.”
The chapter makes this point while reviewing the work of the National Hurricane Center and the environmental satellite data centers, which it says provide important public safety and business functions and are used by forecasters and scientists internationally. It notes that data continuity is an important issue in climate science.
What the document actually says“Data collected by the department should be presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate.”
Show the data plainly. Do not change it to help one side of the climate argument.
The government collects climate data. The book says it should be published as it is. It says no changes should be made to favor one side.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
2025-05-23 · 90 FR 22601
EO 14303 of May 23, 2025 sets rules for how agencies use, interpret and communicate scientific data. Agency heads must publish the data, analyses, conclusions and models, including source code, behind information that will have a substantial effect on public policy or private decisions; employees must document uncertainty and how it propagates through models; and employees must be transparent about the likelihood of the assumptions and scenarios used, with highly unlikely or overly precautionary scenarios relied on only where the law requires it. The order's statement of reasons names agency use of the RCP 8.5 climate scenario as an example of a worst case presented as likely. Where the fit breaks down: this is a government wide scientific integrity order run through the Office of Science and Technology Policy, not a Commerce Department policy about its own records. It says nothing about the National Hurricane Center or the environmental satellite data centers, does not address adjustments made to collected data, and does not touch the continuity of long climate series that the chapter raises.
The order tells agencies to post the data and models behind their claims. They must say how likely each guess is. The chapter asked one department to keep its own records free of slant. This order runs across the whole government. It says nothing about changes made to the data.
2 agency rules
- National Environmental Policy Act Implementing RegulationsInterior Department, Office of the Secretary · February 24, 2026
- Financial Assistance Regulations-Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment Policy RequirementsEnergy Department · July 16, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.