Via UCLA Center for Knowledge Structure: “The Southern California Climate Data Protection Project helps to build a refuge for climate change data and supports climate and environmental research and advocacy. We are committed to evidence-based arguments. Our goal is to preserve the research society needs at a time of ongoing climate change. This concern is real, as the federal government has already moved to expunge information related to climate change from whitehouse.gov and barred EPA staff from awarding any new contracts and grants. We are partners with the international DataRefuge effort and the Environmental Data Governance Initiative.

• Via Quartz – See also Hackers downloaded US government climate data and stored it on European servers as Trump was being inaugurated –  “As Donald Trump was sworn into office as the new president of the US on Jan. 20, a group of around 60 programmers and scientists were gathered in the Department of Information Studies building at the University of California-Los Angeles, harvesting government data A spreadsheet detailed their targets: Webpages dedicated to the Department of Energy’s solar power initiative, Energy Information Administration data sets that compared fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and fuel cell research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, to name a few out of hundreds…”