A way to fight Trump’s climate change denialism and support science.
Originally shared by John Baez
CLIMATE CHANGE? WHAT’S THAT?
At noon today in Washington DC, all mentions of “climate change” and “global warming” were deleted from White House website.
Well, not all. The word “climate” still shows up here:
President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan…
Luckily, at the Azimuth Climate Data Backup Project, we’ve been preparing for exactly this. We’ve been racing to save publicly available climate data at NASA, NOAA, and other government agencies that Trump now controls.
Please visit our Kickstarter page, learn more about what we’ve done, contribute some money, and help us out!
We plan to make our data publicly available, so we need money for servers and storage. Right now we can afford to hold it for about 3 years. 8 would be better.
Luckily, this week the head of U. C. Riverside’s Computing and Communications department said they would host data over the long term! So, we will also work to transfer it there and set up a usable interface.
We’re part of a larger initiative, ClimateMirror.org: different teams are saving different databases. For example, the End of Term Archive has saved Obama’s White House webpages.
You can read more about these efforts here:
In the comments below, I will list some people who have helped the Azimuth Backup Project with their donations. One person contributed $2000, two contributed $1000 and two contributed $500. That’s wonderful, and I thank these people immensely! But most of our success is due to large numbers of smaller contributions.
To see how “climate change” has now vanished from White House website, go here:
Welcome to the new era.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/592742410/azimuth-climate-data-backup-project