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Archive.org Works With Others to Back up EPA and Other Government Data

posted by martyb on Friday December 16 2016, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the redundancy++ dept.

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.

Help and donations are requested.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:53AM (#442324)

    He's publicly said he wants to tear down the institutions of government and put (his version of christian) religion in charge.

    Christian religion? You do realize this is the guy who listed Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, and Satan [cnn.com] as being among his heroes. Whatever else you might call him, Christian just doesn't quite fit him. It still leaves me gobsmacked that somewhere around 80% of evangelicals in America voted for Trump even though they were well aware of the peculiar values of his campaign CEO and many others of his inner circle.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @03:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @03:15AM (#442343)

    > Whatever else you might call him, Christian just doesn't quite fit him.

    I said his version of christianity. His whole schtick is that america was founded on judeochristian values and america has declined because we've turned away from them. [patheos.com] Of course, as you've noticed, his version of judeochristian is peculiar.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @08:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @08:28AM (#442392)

    You forgot that Satan is a goddamn angel, and the other two are just his role models.