Just appalling. They’re like monks trying to save their manuscripts from barbarian raiders who’d loot and burn everything.
Nineteen Eighty-Four:
“For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.”
Another job for the Russians - find that climate data, wherever they try to hide it, and make it disappear.
Don’t worry–it’s perfectly normal for an incoming administration to destroy information that is vital for the future of the planet. Nothing to see here folks.
Apparently we are all agreed that the U.S. is really going to go through with this process of committing suicide.
More like murder-suicide, really, but yeah.
However, the President-elect has selected Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a climate change skeptic, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency,
Dude’s a denier.
This is now the second time that a group has sought to move data to a safer place.
Voting matters and apathy kills.
Sounds like a prudent measure to take. Thank you to those caring scientists and assistants!
Anything to keep proper science intact is fine by me.
FIFY
This is amazing…as a scientist, I can truly say that I would have never expected something like this to be done by researchers working inside the US government. It’s a defensive move, because they have a lot of data to back up, and maybe it won’t come to pass that it was necessary, but gladly they are doing it anyways. And, it’s heartening, because if orders come down to start doing things like this the federal bureaucracy workers will say something, loudly and publicly.
It’s too bad we’re here, but maybe we can get through without too much damage if enough people do things like this.
This must cause cognitive dissonance for the Trumpanzees. Since they’re convinced that GCC is a hoax and a fraud, wouldn’t scientists want to destroy the evidence?
This is appalling, and sad, but thank god they’re doing this.
We’re about to become the laughing stock of the entire scientific world.
Given that we’re the second-highest producer of greenhouse gas emissions, I’m not sure that they’re really laughing.
Preparing for the purges and pogroms.
Only this stuff is real, not some made up stories about Jesus (or stories copied from other religions with Jesus replacing the original hero).
Reminds me more of the librarians in Alexandra trying to stop the Christian monks from burning the world’s central data depository to the ground.
Surely we have some allies among the 179 countries that signed the Paris Agreement who would help us protect our data from the Republican dinosaurs.