What US climate resources should we be archiving?
What US climate resources should we be archiving?
When the Trump administration began taking down federal resources on climate change, I started pre-emptively archiving reports and data sets in the event that they're no longer accessible. That proved to be a smart move, as the NCA5 website just went dark this week. That's a huge blow to the layperson, as that was one of the most comprehensive resources on climate change for our nation. Thankfully I had the data backed up on multiple hard drives and cloud servers, so we can continue to provide this information to those who need it.
So far I've archived the following resources (which are no longer available from their official websites):
- CDC Environmental Justice Index | Google Drive | Proton Drive
- CDC Social Vulnerability Index | Google Drive | Proton Drive
- FEMA Future Risk Index | Google Drive | Proton Drive
- NCA5 Reports | Google Drive | Proton Drive
- NCA5 Data Atlas | Google Drive | Proton Drive
The following resources are still live, but I've archived them pre-emptively for safety:
- CDC Effects of Climate Change on Health
- EPA Climate Resilience Screening Index
- EPA Cumulative Resilience Screening Index
- FEMA National Risk Index
- NCICS State Climate Summaries
What other US government resources might be on the chopping block? I'm primarily looking for reports and data related to climate change, resilience, and adaptation, and ideally in a downloadable format (PDF, Excel, CSV, etc.).
Archive everything twice. This regime will take anything and everything down that it can.
2x on local hard drives, 2x in the cloud. Not taking any chances with this.
They took down all the information on the NASA website about the Russian Venera Venus probe program. That shit was landmark space history and was frankly amazing. I made a post about it, but nobody seemed to care much.
I'm personally focused on climate change, but where did you post that? And is there any way to archive that information? (Archive.org most likely saved a snapshot of the page.) The vast majority of the stuff I post gets single-digit upvotes, I think part of it is just a userbase issue. Even main page posts only get a few comments, I don't think we'll see real traction and engagement until the number of total users goes up by 10x.