Updated, 11:30 p.m.| The Trump administration has seemed keen to reduce the amount of information about human-driven climate change on government websites, reflecting the stark course reversal that’s in store if the president holds to campaign pledges.

Some initial changes have already been found (see Climate Central) using tracking tools developed by a new consortium, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. There’s a parallel “data rescue” push by worried scientists and climate campaigners.

But Trump’s climate agenda may have had an unintended effect. Traffic is booming at the main climate pages of three government agencies, particularly that of the Environmental Protection Agency.

To call the spike in traffic at epa.gov/climatechange a “Trump bump” doesn’t come close to capturing what happened. Have a look at page-view tallies provided by the agency’s press office (calendar years):

2014: 667,085

2015: 380,274

2016: 315,611

And then check just the month of January, 2017 (actually Jan. 1 to Feb. 3):

420,106

The EPA’s web traffic on climate change is tiny compared to that at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as you’ll see.

But the EPA is under the closest scrutiny, both by environmentalists and the Trump administration (along with its allies in Congress and elsewhere). That’s because EPA is the agency with regulatory authority over greenhouse gases.

Websites are thriving at NASA, which has long had popular online content on Earth science and observations. The agency provided these page-view statistics* for climate.nasa.gov, its main page for climate change information:

2014: 3,664,655

2015: 6,805,043

2016: 8,179,789

The January total was 1,313,764,* pointing to a big jump if interest is sustained.

The main portal on climate change at NOAA is climate.gov. Here are the traffic numbers the agency’s press office was able to provide (the data are slightly different than those above; this is visits, not page-views):

2015: 6,113,479

2016: 7,247,451

January saw 820,000 visits.

So, for the moment, while the Trump administration’s goals on climate change communication are clear, so, too, is evidence that any online changes will face a lot of scrutiny.

Along with the boost in online traffic, new initiatives have sprung up to track week-to-week changes on thousands of climate-focused web pages, most notably through a nascent consortium called the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative.

A week ago, Climate Central reported on the initiative’s initial discoveries, including some shifts editing that replaced the Obama administration’s focus on emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases with language on adapting to climate change.

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Corrected at asterisk| The NASA web traffic figures above are correct. The post initially incorrectly described session numbers (visits) as page views. These are the session stats:

2014: 2,597,069

2015: 3,501,580

2016: 4,198,328

January 2017: 669,925