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pscot

(21,023 posts)
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:50 AM Mar 2017

In 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 country’s 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.


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 OP
Kick. CrispyQ Mar 2017 #1
I was intimately aware of it. GliderGuider Mar 2017 #4
American people want this, they want to stop science and ignore Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2
This is really sad. Voltaire2 Mar 2017 #3
Sad? dickthegrouch Mar 2017 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
2. American people want this, they want to stop science and ignore
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 12:07 PM
Mar 2017

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.

dickthegrouch

(3,151 posts)
5. Sad?
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 02:51 AM
Mar 2017

The correct word is criminal. It should be classed as an offense against the human race, or even against the planet.

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