Scientists are scrambling to save government climate data before Trump is sworn in
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Scientists are scrambling to download troves of climate data collected by government agencies that they fear could disappear under a Trump administration, according to Motherboard and The Washington Post. The Trump transition team hasn’t answered questions about what will happen to climate data, so the scientific community is bracing for the worst. Meteorologist Eric Holthaus asked scientists to add government climate databases to a Google spreadsheet, so that the data can be copied and saved on independent servers. During the George W. Bush administration, there was widespread censorship of climate change information; data on global warming on government websites was not updated promptly. A top NASA scientist, James E. Hansen, also accused the Bush administration of trying to silence him on matters of climate change.
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