Anticipating the worst under the incoming administration, a group of scientists are frantically trying to archive government climate data before President-elect Donald Trump’s “band of climate conspiracy theorists…storm the castle,” as one put it.
On Saturday, Slate meterologist Eric Holthaus posed the question: “Scientists: Do you have a US.gov climate database that you don’t want to see disappear? Add it here,” he wrote. “Please share.”
The response was “overwhelming,” Holthaus said Sunday, “We still need more input, more database names. I want to make sure no data is lost on Jan 20.”
Suggestions range from NASA’s scientific consensus on global warming, to the Environmental Protection Agency’s map of the nation’s worst greenhouse gas emitters, to NOAA’s documentation of sea level trends.