US Government Climate Change Website Credibility

Climate change is one of the biggest problems that humanity has faced in its history. Almost everybody has access to the internet in some form in the US, and a significant amount of research (academic or not) is done by searching the web for articles or websites that claim expert knowledge of the topic of interest. In the case of climate change, many of the authoritative websites in the US are federal government funded, from varying US agencies. These agency websites, given the amount of resources they command and the reputation provided by being a part of the federal government, have an immense opportunity to inform the public with reputable information and influence public action on climate change. The goal of this research is to inspect how credible some of the US government climate change websites actually are.