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Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045
A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.
Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.
Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.
They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.
The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by quacking duck on Friday December 16 2016, @04:35PM
We already have a template for what happens when an ideologue takes power: Stephen Harper's conservatives in Canada sought to destroy the scientific works that departments had spent decades building up. Literal libraries of data and research were destroyed by closing the facilities, forcing the materials to be thrown into dumpsters or recycled, not to mention muzzling government scientists from being able to talk to media without going through a political officer / censor.
A TP-led, Republican-dominated house will be much worse, because it's Harper's contempt for science + Rob Ford's unhinged populist behaviour, multiplied by ten. We already have proof by the PE's selection to head various departments like the EPA, education, etc. Funny how I haven't heard a peep about being "qualified for the job" from right wing whiners.
Given odds like this, it's absolutely prudent to safeguard scientific data. It's analogous to moving irreplaceable things out of museums and galleries when you know an invading extremist force is coming that seeks to destroy anything that doesn't conform to their dogma.