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US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader ClickOnThis quotes CNN:
Some scientists and academics are embarking on a frenzied mission to archive reams of scientific data on climate change, energized by a concern that a Trump administration could seek to wipe government websites of hard-earned research... The chief concern: publicly available climate change data and research found on government websites would be wiped clean or made otherwise inaccessible to the public. Some worry the information could only be retrieved with a taxing Freedom of Information Act request.
One associate professor at the University of Texas tells CNN, "There is a very short window for when the new administration will come in and that's why there's a lot of anxiety. There's a lot of information to save."
One associate professor at the University of Texas tells CNN, "There is a very short window for when the new administration will come in and that's why there's a lot of anxiety. There's a lot of information to save."
What you don't know can't hurt you. Obviously we need to defund NASA and move it to NOAA but in a crazy coincidence that money will get lost and go to pet projects. Maybe Trump will grab someone else by the pussy at the same time so the media talks about that instead of real issues.
1. Most of that bullshit is computationally generated crap. They can just recreate that from whatever code they made it with in the first place. 2. Some of these "data"sets and "papers" and the like might be available on government websites for a long time after President Trump. As evidence exhibits on the sites of the Dept. of Justice.