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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: 2) by butthurt on Saturday December 17 2016, @02:28AM
[...] people have been voting against the status-quo all over the world. Change is in the air [...]
In Mr. Trump's speech on energy policy, he seemed to favour continued, even increased, emphasis on fossil fuels.
/article.pl?sid=16/06/03/1944223 [soylentnews.org]
His selection of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state only reinforces that impression.
He holds investments in several fossil fuel companies.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2838696-Trump-2016-Financial-Disclosure.html [documentcloud.org]
He's expressed reluctance to sell his stocks or place them in a blind trust. Not doing so would leave him in a position to profit from his office.
I appreciate that Ms. Clinton wasn't, for many people, the change they were looking for, but Mr. Trump appears to me to represent a reinforcement of the status quo in regard to energy.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Saturday December 17 2016, @11:13AM
It has more to do with which way policies have been trending and the economic issues involved:
The trend for the past 8 years or so has been to emphasize reduction of fossil fuel usage. More tax funds are being spent on public transit initiatives and financial incentives for adding solar power or buying a hybrid or electric car. The people that can afford to buy those things have been getting use of the carpool lane in traffic jams, first–row parking with free charger access, huge discounts (or money back) on their utility bill, and so forth.
Meanwhile, thanks to the economic mess, there's a lot of people who can't afford to get solar equipment or a hybrid/electric car, and who have had to watch the more fortunate get all of those perks in addition to their existing socioeconomic status. From that perspective, “change” is then more about curbing or reversing those policies, and possibly about reducing/removing the sales & gas taxes that have been footing the bill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @12:10PM
The people that can afford to buy those things have been getting use of the carpool lane in traffic jams, first–row parking with free charger access, huge discounts (or money back) on their utility bill, and so forth.
Heh. None of those are federal policies. And the nissan leaf is eminently affordable at less than $30K after the federal subsidy - less than the average new car price of $33.6K [kbb.com]
But it has been interesting to watch your mind at work trying to rationalize trumpism.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday December 17 2016, @09:09PM
> [...] for the past 8 years or so [...] sales & gas taxes that have been footing the bill [...]
The federal tax has remained the same, 18.4 cents per gallon, since October of 1997.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/Federal-Gas-Tax-Rates.htm [about.com]
The people that can afford to buy those things have been getting [...] free charger access, huge discounts (or money back) on their utility bill [...]
Those subsidies are intended, it would appear, to make electric cars and solar panels more affordable. Of course they are a burden, but the reasoning has been that the benefits—less pollution, less greenhouse effect, less dependence on the fossil fuel industry and on imported fuel, less need to build central power plants—would outweigh the costs. Earlier this month, OPEC convinced 11 non-member countries, including Russia, to cut oil production.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-opec-russia-cuts-idUSKBN14513U [reuters.com]
Back in 2000 and 2001, Enron and a few other companies coerced California into paying exorbitant prices for electricity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis [wikipedia.org]
https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/enron-caused-california-blackouts-traders-say [marketwatch.com]
If the rate-payers were generating much of their own electricity, such a situation would be unlikely to occur.
More tax funds are being spent on public transit initiatives [...] The people that can afford to buy those things have been getting use of the carpool lane in traffic jams, [...]
Try to forgive me for quoting and responding out of context. Public transit ought, in my opinion, to be affordable to the masses. It also ought to lessen traffic congestion. I do acknowledge that it sometimes fails to do either.