Governments must stop hoarding climate data
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-03-19
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- WORLD VIEW
- 18 March 2025
Governments must stop hoarding climate data
National agencies too often use spurious reasons to deny researchers unfettered access to resources that are key to understanding past and future climate change.
Science flourishes when data are shared freely, enabling verification, replication and innovation. In climate science, where I work, the stakes of open data sharing are nothing less than the future of our planet. Yet it is precisely in this field that access to fundamental data sets is often withheld or limited by gate-keeping national agencies, which often cite security, privacy or commercial concerns...."