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'A University of Guelph professor is one of many experts working to preserve
climate change data that the U.S. government is trying to scrub off the
internet.
This comes after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration started taking
down U.S. federal websites and pages containing climate change information.
Eric Nost, an associate professor of geography at the University of Guelph, is
among those working with Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI) to
archive climate change data sets from U.S. federal government websites.
"We also see a lot of tools for understanding what climate change is all about
being removed, and in particular we see a lot of taking down of resources that
describe who is most vulnerable to climate change," he said.
Nost said removing climate change information from the internet will affect the
world's understanding of climate change and its effects.
"When the U.S. government takes down this information, that just makes it all
that much harder for people around the world, not just in the U.S., to
understand what's happening, what's expected to happen, who's being affected,"
he said.
Nost's team is doing a number of things to prevent climate change data from
being lost.
"We started with an exercise in which we identified the data sets and tools and
websites that we thought would be most vulnerable to changes. We then went and
archived them. We would download them, and then upload them to repositories
where they can be kept safe," he said.'
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