Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump

[RavenSky]

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.

Scientists added links to dozens of government databases to a Google spreadsheet. Investors offered to help fund efforts to copy and safeguard key climate data. Lawyers offered pro bono legal help. Database experts offered server space and help organizing mountains of data. In California, Santos began building an online repository to “make sure these data sets remain freely and broadly accessible.”

“Something that seemed a little paranoid to me before all of a sudden seems potentially realistic, or at least something you’d 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.

yeah

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...a-1130a:homepage/story&utm_term=.dc6e8fdd2f25

 

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[LordKiran]

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Not to make excuses or to minimize the damage to irreplaceable historic artifacts but I'm not all too bothered by this sort of thing. When you accept the impermanence of all things, the destruction of ancient statues suddenly seems not-so-important.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

Don't worry America. The rest of the world will rise and step in as you fall into obscurity and become a third world country. Canada and Mexico will both build walls to keep you out, but I'm sure some rising countries in Africa will send some foreign aid your way.

 

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Not to make excuses or to minimize the damage to irreplaceable historic artifacts but I'm not all too bothered by this sort of thing. When you accept the impermanence of all things, the destruction of ancient statues suddenly seems not-so-important.

what's the importance of all things? you are leaving at least one thing out though

 

[LordKiran]

Not to make excuses or to minimize the damage to irreplaceable historic artifacts but I'm not all too bothered by this sort of thing. When you accept the impermanence of all things, the destruction of ancient statues suddenly seems not-so-important.

what's the importance of all things? you are leaving at least one thing out though

Importance is a matter of perspective. I'm ultimately just not bothered by this because its not as if they wouldn't eventually be lost anyway, and now that they are gone, its like being saddened by the destruction of The Great Library.

 

[Tigers!]

The poor climate data seems to be unloved by anyone. I seem to remember that the MET (Meteorological Office) in the UK, or some part at least was once accused of destroying/manipulating older climate data

 

[Nice Squirrel]

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Not to make excuses or to minimize the damage to irreplaceable historic artifacts but I'm not all too bothered by this sort of thing. When you accept the impermanence of all things, the destruction of ancient statues suddenly seems not-so-important.

That wasn't the big trouble in little china set?

 

[Deepak]

That wasn't the big trouble in little china set?

Funny you should mention that in a conversation about the destruction of treasured antiquities.

 

[DrZoidberg]

That wasn't the big trouble in little china set?

Funny you should mention that in a conversation about the destruction of treasured antiquities.

That's so sad. Also, insanity. One of the joys of Big Trouble in Little China is the rampant Asian racism of it. It's fun and quaint because it's such an old movie. No way can you remake that. Also, the film is about 80'ies scenography. This is the apex of that style. That's what makes it good. The story in itself is stupid. I fail to see how it's possible to remake this and it not become worse. It'll be yet another remake in a whole string of similar pointless remakes. Soon we'll start calling original content pre-makes.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Not to make excuses or to minimize the damage to irreplaceable historic artifacts but I'm not all too bothered by this sort of thing. When you accept the impermanence of all things, the destruction of ancient statues suddenly seems not-so-important.

The general impermanence of things is what made those things so valuable and important!

 

[barbos]

what's the importance of all things? you are leaving at least one thing out though

Importance is a matter of perspective. I'm ultimately just not bothered by this because its not as if they wouldn't eventually be lost anyway, and now that they are gone, its like being saddened by the destruction of The Great Library.

I guess you would not be bothered if someone goes to Mecca and trash that place to the ground too.