Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since Trump took office
- Written by Morgan Currie, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford University, Stanford University
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, hundreds of volunteers around the U.S. came together to “rescue” federal data on climate change, thought to be at risk under the new administration. “Guerilla archivists,” including ourselves, gathered to archive federal websites and preserve scientific data.
But what has...