Scientists who are looking at the cabinet Donald Trump is assembling — and at Trump himself — and at an anticipated dismantling of federal climate change research, tracking, and even accumulated data, are busy making "guerrilla copies" of climate measurement datasets they are afraid will be taken private, offline, or deleted once the Trump administration takes over.
That people feel that fearful for science in this country — that they see such a threat to data — is amazingly sad. I hope it turns out that they are simply being paranoid. I am fearful they are not.
Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump
“People have felt a call to arms. We need to be outspoken.”
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Since science has a well known liberal bias, it is good planning on their part that they are trying to rescue the data since it will most likely be deleted or sold off to the highest bidder.