Coders Race to Save NASA's Climate Data

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Coders Race to Save NASA's Climate Data
By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer | February 14, 2017 11:02am ET

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Coders Race to Save NASA's Climate Data
An animation showing how carbon dioxide moves around the planet.
Credit: NASA/YouTube

A group of coders is racing to save the government's climate science data.

On Saturday (Feb. 11), 200 programmers crammed themselves into the Doe Library at the University of California, Berkeley, furiously downloading NASA's Earth science data in a hackathon, Wired reported.  The group's goal: rescue data that may be deleted or hidden under President Donald Trump's administration.

The process involves developing web-crawler scripts to trawl the internet, finding federal data and patching it together into coherent data sets. The hackers are also keeping track of data as it disappears; for instance, the Global Data Center's reports and one of NASA's atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) data sets has already been removed from the web.

http://www.livescience.com/57879-coders-saving-nasa-climate-data.html

[Oceander]

In other words, they want to perpetuate falsified data. 

[Cyber Liberty]

In other words, they want to perpetuate falsified data.

I see a golden opportunity to do that and create NEW falsified data.  Who can vouch for the pedigree of the "preserved" data?

[Oceander]

I see a golden opportunity to do that and create NEW falsified data.  Who can vouch for the pedigree of the "preserved" data?

Interesting point. 

[GtHawk]

In other words, they want to perpetuate falsified data.

Maybe they can arrange to have it archived here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLrnsOqmr0

[Frank Cannon]

I see a golden opportunity to do that and create NEW falsified data.  Who can vouch for the pedigree of the "preserved" data?

Bingo.