Saving Climate Data (Part 1)

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I try to stay out of politics on this website. This post is not mainly about politics. It’s a call to action. We’re trying to do something rather simple and clearly worthwhile. We’re trying to create backups of US government climate data.

The background is, of course, political. Many signs point to a dramatic change in US climate policy:

• Oliver Milman, Trump’s transition: sceptics guide every agency dealing with climate change, The Guardian, 12 December 2016.

So, scientists are now backing...