Fearing Trump tampering, coders from UC Berkeley rescue climate data

With the nomination of fossil fuel stooge Scott Pruitt to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, environmentalists fear a disintegration of regulation and an obscuring of climate change facts similar to what happened under President George W. Bush.

Back in 2006, a NASA investigation concluded the Bush administration had “reduced, marginalized or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public.” The Trump administration has already wiped out any reference to climate change on the White House’s official website, though much of that information has been archived under a website devoted to the Obama administration.

But more data dumps are feared.

Luckily then, according to Wired, coders at UC Berkeley hacked into 101 public data sets that track the environment on February 11, and snagged the info before the Trump administration could delete or tamper with them.