Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump

The Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump was a meeting arranged by two professors at the University of Toronto in December 2016,[1][2] in an effort to pre-emptively preserve US government climate data from possible deletion by the Administration of Donald Trump.[3][4]

Background

During his run for presidency, President Trump had expressed, in various occasions, climate change denialism[5] calling the climate change as Chinese hoax "in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive", and voiced his hostility towards climate science and Paris climate agreement.[6][7] In early December 2016, a prominent climate change sceptic, Scott Pruitt was selected as a new administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).[8] These proceeding had raised concerns among academic community that the scientific opinion on climate change might be suppressed during Trump's presidency. Indeed, according to Reuters sources, in 25 January 2017, Trump's administration instructed United States Environmental Protection Agency to remove climate change page from their website.[9]

The event

Fearing for possible deletion, or alteration of the US government websites containing the government climate data, as happened in Canada,[10] people from various academic backgrounds and training such as coders, environmental scientists, social scientists, archivists, and librarians gathered together in order to save US government websites at risk of changing or disappearing during or after government transition.[11][12] The event collaborated with the Internet Archive's End of Term project.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump | Faculty of Information (iSchool) | University of Toronto". ischool.utoronto.ca.
  2. ↑ "Toronto group wants to save science and climate change data from Trump with internet archiving | Metro Toronto". metronews.ca. 13 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Academics are in a 'race against time' to protect climate science from Donald Trump". Newsweek. 15 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Scientists are Racing to Save Climate Data Fearing Trump Administration". Yahoo News.
  5. ↑ Foran, Clare. "Donald Trump and the Triumph of Climate Denial". The Atlantic.
  6. ↑ Wong, Edward (18 November 2016). "Trump Has Called Climate Change a Chinese Hoax. Beijing Says It Is Anything But.". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ "Donald Trump would 'cancel' Paris climate deal". BBC News. 27 May 2016.
  8. ↑ Milman, Oliver (8 December 2016). "Donald Trump picks climate change sceptic Scott Pruitt to lead EPA". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ "Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources". Reuters. 25 January 2017.
  10. ↑ xxx
  11. ↑ "U of T Hosts Successful Climate Data Archiving Event". The Varsity. 8 January 2017.
  12. ↑ "Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump". Washington Post. 13 December 2016.
  13. ↑ "Toronto 'guerrilla' archivists to help preserve US climate data". BBC News. 15 December 2016.
  14. ↑ Kim, Peter (17 December 2016). "University of Toronto professors ‘race against time’ to save environmental data ahead of Donald Trump presidency". Global News.
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