Re: [PLUG] Wanted: volunteers with bandwidth, storage, coding skills to help save climate data

[Will <staticphantom@gmail.com>]

As someone that works a site that researches climate data, we are nearing a quarter exabyte of data. The data is fine and nobody should concern themselves. Someone can do me a huge favor however if they tell me the data is HDF of NetCDF formatted. 

-Will C

On Dec 17, 2016 11:08, "Christopher Barry" <christopher.r.barry@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:32:33 -0500
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:

>If you have an interest in preserving a lot of scientific research
>data:
>
>       Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing
>       it might vanish under Trump
>       https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/
>
>I've set up a mailing list to coordinate IT efforts to help out.
>Signup via climatedata-request@firemountain.net or, if you prefer
>Mailman's web interface,
>http://www.firemountain.net/mailman/listinfo/climatedata should work.
>
>---rsk

While I greatly respect you Rich, this whole thing seems a bit like
'the sky is falling' to me.

Does anyone /really/ think Trump would seize or delete their data?
That's seriously paranoid and weird. Why can't they just throw it up on
github or somewhere like that?

--
Regards,
Christopher
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