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Trump Administration Deleting Research Data on Arctic Warming

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Monkey_Plunkett

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As an Arctic researcher, I'm used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven't been updated since the second world war. Navigating uncharted waters can prove difficult, but it comes with the territory of working in such a remote part of the world.

Over the past two months though, I've been navigating a different type of uncharted territory: the deleting of what little data we have by the Trump administration.
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Anticipating a massive overhaul by the new administration, scientists around the world sounded the alarm to copy as many files off of government sites before they were altered or removed. As the inauguration neared, hundreds of guerrilla archivists took up the call. From Philadelphia to Toronto, hackers raced against the clock to protect crucial datasets before they disappeared. Volunteers tried tirelessly to save what they could, but the federal government is a massive warehouse of information. Some data was bound to get left behind.
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The consequences of vanishing citations, however, pose a far more serious consequence than website updates. Each defunct page is an effort by the Trump administration to deliberately undermine our ability to make good policy decisions by limiting access to scientific evidence.
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These back-to-back data deletions come at a time when the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average. Just this week, it was reported that the Arctic's winter sea ice dropped to its lowest level in recorded history. The impacts of a warming, ice-free Arctic are already clear: a decline in habitat for polar bears and other Arctic animals; increases in coastal erosion that force Alaskans to abandon their homes; and the opening up of shipping routes with unpredictable conditions and hazardous icebergs.
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https://www.theguardian.com/comment...researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations


This is absolutely horrifying, It's going to make a lot of research impossible, because you won't have any starting point or any data for comparison. I get that he doesn't believe in global warming so therefore the data should be meaningless to him and all he needs to do is deny it, so why delete it?

Unless of course they know the data is valid and they are knowingly deleting it which should be a crime against humanity. This research is all taxpayer funded by the way.

Kill planet if old.
 
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Bronetta

Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
What the fuck is wrong with them?

Create your own legacy, stop destroying others.
 
Chaplain

Chaplain

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"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill
 
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EdibleKnife

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"Both sides" is a meme that will always be relevant. Hope the people happy about their "principals" that didn't vote are paying attention.
 
Ray Wonder

Ray Wonder

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SpiralZilla

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Monkey_Plunkett said:
This is absolutely horrifying, It's going to make a lot of research impossible, because you won't have any starting point or any data for comparison. I get that he doesn't t believe in global warming so therefore the data should be meaningless to him and all he needs to do is deny it, so why delete it? Unless of course they know the data is valid and they are knowingly deleting it which should be a crime against humanity. This research is all telaxpayer funded by the way.

Kill planet if old.
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This should be on the level of human rights violations or war crimes. Everyone involved in the making of this modern-day book burning decision deserves to die in prison.
 
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Alcoremortis

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Luckily, I believe most, if not all, of this data was backed up in Canada, so it's not lost.

But it's sickening to think that scientists have to resort to such measures.
 
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Nokterian

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These people are the worst of the worst, denying everything on science,climate and what is important to everything what is happening to the world and us.

Thanks to trump voters these evil fucking old men are willing to destroy what other presidents and people have worked towards over the last 50+ years.

As a Europeaan as an outsider i am baffled what is happening, only you my american friends need to fight this. Our future,our world depend on it, our legacy for the next 50+ years will be destroyed by these incompetent idiots.
 
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jelly

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I hope they managed to back up all the data.

Deleting is pure evil. I hope every single one of them rots in prison.
 
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The Real Abed

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Hopefully it is backed up and kept safely in an unknown location so the day Trump's people leave office they can very publicly restore the data as a fuck you.
 
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JZA

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Nephtes said:
I was just going to say... Is this the year we get the gritty, realistic, DC Cinematic universe looking reboot of Captain Planet we deserve?
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I wouldn't mind seeing a Zach Snyder-directed fight scene between Captain Planet and the current administration. The brutality would feel justified.
 
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nintendoman58

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I hope the upcoming March for Science shows some real anger.

I need to see people chanting "CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT A HOAX" over and over again.
 
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Madness

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This is just sad at this point. The whole world which was laughing at the US and its citizens is now just shocked. Such an evil and dumb fuck administration backed up by 60 million dumb fuck voters who voted them in. Will sell them down the river, but hey, at least they can deport illegal fathers dropping their kids off at school and make america white again.

Will take the next administration 8 years to undo this mess and then most likely they'll again vote the GOP back which will then reverse and mess everything up again.
 
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Linkark07

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I seriously hope these bastards have a special place in hell after they die. And their name tarnished in history for all eternity.
 
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Extollere

Sucks at poetry
Sometimes I feel like our government actually wants to ruin things and see conditions worsen. It's easier to flex your authoritarian arms when the country, and world, are in bad shape.
 
Hale-XF11

Hale-XF11

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Madness said:
Will take the next administration 8 years to undo this mess and then most likely they'll again vote the GOP back which will then reverse and mess everything up again.
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This saddens me greatly, knowing that as human beings, we collectively have very shitty memory. We are doomed to repeat this shit over and over and over again.
 
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Dragbolt

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Anti-intellectualism has always been a warning sign. Deleting inconvenient facts is the first step towards totalitarianism.
 
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EdibleKnife

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samoscratch said:
I don't recognize this country anymore..
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I do. These are the people who deny science and facts. These are the gay bashers. These are the people who think Black Lives Matter is a false statement. These are the people who want women to stay silent and serve. These are the people who talk about love and the bible but take neither to heart. These people have lived in America for a long time, systematically ruining lives and communities. The efforts of the like-minded and the apathetic helped them gain power in one arena after the other until this was inevitable. The good part is it doesn't have to be forever.
 
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