Why a ‘Guerrilla Archiving’ Project Seeks to Preserve Climate Data Before Trump Takes Office - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Scientists, librarians, and digital historians from a growing number of universities have begun a crowdsourced effort to copy and archive thousands of federal-government websites and data sets related to climate change, the environment, and other areas of scientific research that they fear could become compromised or inaccessible under the incoming Trump administration.

The movement, now known by its hashtag, #DataRefuge, took off in response to an essay in The Washington Post in which a meteorologist and journalist named Eric Holthaus described how he had begun "to systematically catalog and preserve as much of the federal government’s publicly available climate-science data as possible in the next five weeks." ..."