When scientists began frantically copying climate data against the possibility that an EPA website would no longer provide access, it seemed a bit ridiculous. Even for a regime stocked with climate change deniers, removing the site seemed just too blatant, too mustache-twirling stock villainous, to be real. And in fact, just five days ago, the EPA’s spokesman responded to stories that the site was going away. “Long story short, this story was a hoax,” agency spokesman J.P.