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Related: About this forumIn the waning days of 2016 we were warned: save the data
At first, the distress flare of lost data came as a surge of defunct links on 21 January. The US National Strategy for the Arctic, the Implementation Plan for the Strategy, and the report on our progress all gone within a matter of minutes. As I watched more and more links turned red, I frantically combed the internet for archived versions of our countrys most important polar policies.
I had no idea then that this disappearing act had just begun.
Since January, the surge has transformed into a slow, incessant march of deleting datasets, webpages and policies about the Arctic. I now come to expect a weekly email request to replace invalid citations, hoping that someone had the foresight to download statistics about Arctic permafrost thaw or renewable energy in advance of the purge.
I had no idea then that this disappearing act had just begun.
Since January, the surge has transformed into a slow, incessant march of deleting datasets, webpages and policies about the Arctic. I now come to expect a weekly email request to replace invalid citations, hoping that someone had the foresight to download statistics about Arctic permafrost thaw or renewable energy in advance of the purge.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations
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In the waning days of 2016 we were warned: save the data (Original Post)
pscot
Mar 2017
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I had no idea about the Harper deletions.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)4. I was intimately aware of it.
One library was on my floor.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)2. American people want this, they want to stop science and ignore
climate change and I assume they want to die from the inevitable effects.
I wonder how stupid the rest of the human race is for letting an idiot or a bunch of idiots make this decision.
What the fuck is wrong with us? If we dont do something, we die.
Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)3. This is really sad.
dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)5. Sad?
The correct word is criminal. It should be classed as an offense against the human race, or even against the planet.