Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion

[westwall]

A quiet crisis..as scientists rush to save valuable data being deleted by the Visigoths currently running our country.

Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion

Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.

www.bbc.com

Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of health, climate change and extreme weather research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.
Some of them are in the US. Others are scattered around the world. There are hundreds, many even thousands of people involved across multiple networks. And they keep a damn close eye on their phones.
No one knows when the next alert or request to save a chunk of US government-held climate data will come in. Such data, long available online, keeps getting taken down by US President Donald Trump's administration. For the last six months or so, Cathy Richards has been entrenched in the response. She works for one of several organizations bent on downloading and archiving public data before it disappears.

This rush to safeguard vital environmental data is part of a broader movement to rescue all kinds of scientific data published online by the US government. Biomedical and health researchers working with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for example, have been frantically searching for ways to back up important data following executive orders issued by Trump about what information on gender and diversity may be published by federal bodies.
Scientists have expressed fears about a wide range of resources that might go next – from historical weather records to data gathered by Nasa satellites. On 16 April, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) announced that a list of datasets regarding ocean monitoring were now scheduled to be removed in early May.

It's all a bunch of doctored and invented crap.

 

[Crepitus]

If I take all my family pictures off of Facebook, I limit who has access to it. But I still have the pictures.

Why are they limiting it?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Nothing is being deleted.

Taking it off line does not equate with if being deleted.

It’s the advent of the Trump Dark Age – the right’s war on science, facts, and the truth.

Fortunately, there are researchers working to preserve environmental data and defend it from the rightwing barbaric hoards spreading fear and ignorance.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

I can't understand the reasoning behind deleting all this data.

It makes no sense at all.

There is no reasoning; like other rightwing dogma it makes no sense.

Conservatives fear facts and the truth – it exposes the faults and failures of the conservative agenda; the right’s only response is to attack and attempt to destroy facts and the truth and replace both with disinformation and lies.

 

[westwall]

There is no reasoning; like other rightwing dogma it makes no sense.

Conservatives fear facts and the truth – it exposes the faults and failures of the conservative agenda; the right’s only response is to attack and attempt to destroy facts and the truth and replace both with disinformation and lies.

Screeches the liar. You're too funny. How much are the Chinese paying you to post this crap?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Why are they limiting it?

Probably because most of that so-called research is based on faked data, or data that is invalid scientifically.

Or maybe it's just because - like any new administration - it has different priorities for the use of resources than the prevous administration.

 

[scruffy]

Probably because most of that so-called research is based on faked data, or data that is invalid scientifically.

Or maybe it's just because - like any new administration - it has different priorities for the use of resources than the prevous administration.

No, a web site is just an excuse for uneducated idiots to draw unwarranted conclusions.

Nothing has been deleted. Big Data still has all the information. Professionals will go to Amazon, Google, or Microsoft cloud and pull the data into R language for analysis.

 

[Seymour Flops]

No, a web site is just an excuse for uneducated idiots to draw unwarranted conclusions.

Nothing has been deleted. Big Data still has all the information. Professionals will go to Amazon, Google, or Microsoft cloud and pull the data into R language for analysis.

Of course.

These guys are so silly.

 

[zaangalewa]

I can't understand the reasoning behind deleting all this data.

It makes no sense at all.

Except you like to replace real data with fantasy. Somehow frustrating to lose for example the data of a weather station measured in the last 200 years. Such data are not replaceable and the work of all the people who did notice this data became suddenly totally senseless. "Conservatives" normally hate it to do so. Who or what is Trump?

 

[zaangalewa]

funny you brought up Hitler lefty .. because he espoused many of the same views of the party you vote for .

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Who believes in anything what Hitler said is just simple an idiot. The Nazis had been right-wing extremists - what is for example totally clear when someone studies the so called "Röhm Putsch" = Röhm coup.

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Hitler is such a good liar that even the opposite of his lies are just lies again.
The father of Joachim Fest during the early time of Nazi-Germany
(Joachim Fest had been the first historian who had been able to write a biography of Hitler)

 

[zaangalewa]

... Conservatives fear facts and the truth ...

What a nonsense. No idea what you call "conservative". Facts and truth are in the centre of a realistic traditional view to the world.

 

[Old Rocks]

I can't understand the reasoning behind deleting all this data.

It makes no sense at all.

It is the same reasoning that existed in China when their ships made major exploration, reaching North America and South America, only to return to a regime change. And that regime decided that anything done prior to it was worthless, so they destroyed the whole fleet. That is exactly the attitude of the present Trump regimen.

 

[luiza]

Yeah..although the scale now is pretty unprecedented. It's not just climate data that's being deleted. anything that smacks of women's reproductive medicine..anything construed as 'DEI'--studies on race, gender dysphoria--and on and on.

The WeevilBeagle involved in yet another Conspiracy .

 

[Old Rocks]

What a nonsense. No idea what you call "conservative". Facts and truth are in the centre of a realistic traditional view to the world.

There are conservatives, and there are "Conservatives". The latter are more correctly called fascists.

 

[westwall]

There are conservatives, and there are "Conservatives". The latter are more correctly called fascists.

Nah, that would be you clods. Trying to control what people can eat, say, play with, live in, drive, travel, you want to force injections on them.

THAT is fascist.

And that is YOUR cult.

 

[zaangalewa]

There are conservatives, and there are "Conservatives". The latter are more correctly called fascists.

If you call me here a fascist or Nazi then I suggest to you to speak with god. Now. Immediatelly. Don't try first to die and afterwards to speak with him about your evil character and what to do to become sane again. It exists also a life before death. So take your chance.

 

[zaangalewa]

EvilEyeFleegle

To use emojis without to think, not to believe in god, not to have spiritual intuitions and/or a feeling of justice makes your life not more easy. "Darwinism" = "human beings are the wolve of human beings" existed also since a minmium of 600 years before Christ and was never successful in all history of mankind.

 

[zaangalewa]

If anyone is interested what the name "NSDAP" means: It means Hitler liked to get votes. That's all.

He overtook the very successless DAP (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei = German Workers Party) and added in front of it "Nationalsozialistsich"="nationalsocialistic" what's just simple a tautology - an oxymoron in itself (socialism is not national).

Who knows the Aristotelian propositional logic knows that "A v not-A" is always true. So whatever someone concludes from such a contradiction is always true.

And this is exactly what the Nazis had been: Hitler was always right - totally independent from this what had happened in reality.