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Showing Original Post only (View all)Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump [View all]
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference.
The efforts include a guerrilla archiving event in Toronto where experts will copy irreplaceable public data, meetings at the University of Pennsylvania focused on how to download as much federal data as possible in the coming weeks, and a collaboration of scientists and database experts who are compiling an online site to harbor scientific information.
Something that seemed a little paranoid to me before all of a sudden seems potentially realistic, or at least something youd want to hedge against, said Nick Santos, an environmental researcher at the University of California at Davis, who over the weekend began copying government climate data onto a nongovernment server, where it will remain available to the public. Doing this can only be a good thing. Hopefully they leave everything in place. But if not, were planning for that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/?postshare=3751481645413207&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.1c4ceeb9da3b
The efforts include a guerrilla archiving event in Toronto where experts will copy irreplaceable public data, meetings at the University of Pennsylvania focused on how to download as much federal data as possible in the coming weeks, and a collaboration of scientists and database experts who are compiling an online site to harbor scientific information.
Something that seemed a little paranoid to me before all of a sudden seems potentially realistic, or at least something youd want to hedge against, said Nick Santos, an environmental researcher at the University of California at Davis, who over the weekend began copying government climate data onto a nongovernment server, where it will remain available to the public. Doing this can only be a good thing. Hopefully they leave everything in place. But if not, were planning for that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/?postshare=3751481645413207&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.1c4ceeb9da3b
I hadn't considered that data might be destroyed, but I suppose it is a possibility. I have a feeling we're going back to the dark ages.
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Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump [View all]
Arkansas Granny
Dec 2016
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what a commentary on the greatest, bestest, most wonderfulest nation in the whole world.
niyad
Dec 2016
#2
Just copying isn't enough -- they need to use blockchain to secure the copies against modification
FarCenter
Dec 2016
#11
Wait till they get around to the Public Libraries and the Schools: Fahrenheit 451 redux.
Ford_Prefect
Dec 2016
#13
My guess is Trump will bring government-sponsored Lysenkoism back into high fashion.
LanternWaste
Dec 2016
#16
Totalitarian tRump Politburo bringing in thought crime clampdown. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2016
#25