I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations
Victoria Herrmann
These politically motivated data deletions come at a time when the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average
melting ice
‘In the waning days of 2016 we were warned: save the data.’ Photograph: Andrew Stewart / SpecialistStock
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Victoria Herrmann is the Managing Director of The Arctic Institute and a National Geographic Explorer
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Tuesday 28 March 2017 06.00 EDT
As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven’t been updated since World War II. Navigating uncharted waters can prove difficult, but it comes with the territory of working in such a remote part of the world.

Over the past two months though, I’ve been navigating a different type of uncharted territory: the deleting of what little data we have by the Trump administration.

At first, the distress flare of lost data came as a surge of defunct links on January 21st. The US National Strategy for the Arctic, the Implementation Plan for the Strategy, and the report on our progress all gone within a matter of minutes. As I watched more and more links turned red, I frantically combed the internet for archived versions of our country’s most important polar policies.

I had no idea then that this disappearing act had just begun.
...
We’ve seen this type of data strangling before.

Just three years ago, Arctic researchers witnessed another world leader remove thousands of scientific documents from the public domain. In 2014, then Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper closed 11 Department of Fisheries and Oceans regional libraries, including the only Arctic center. Hundreds of reports and studies containing well over a century of research were destroyed in that process – a historic loss from which we still have not recovered.

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crank wrote:This is some really serious, really ominous BS, from The Guardian:

I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations

I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations
Victoria Herrmann
These politically motivated data deletions come at a time when the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average
melting ice
‘In the waning days of 2016 we were warned: save the data.’ Photograph: Andrew Stewart / SpecialistStock
Comments
96
Victoria Herrmann is the Managing Director of The Arctic Institute and a National Geographic Explorer
Contact author
@vsherrmann
Tuesday 28 March 2017 06.00 EDT
As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven’t been updated since World War II. Navigating uncharted waters can prove difficult, but it comes with the territory of working in such a remote part of the world.

Over the past two months though, I’ve been navigating a different type of uncharted territory: the deleting of what little data we have by the Trump administration.

At first, the distress flare of lost data came as a surge of defunct links on January 21st. The US National Strategy for the Arctic, the Implementation Plan for the Strategy, and the report on our progress all gone within a matter of minutes. As I watched more and more links turned red, I frantically combed the internet for archived versions of our country’s most important polar policies.

I had no idea then that this disappearing act had just begun.
...
We’ve seen this type of data strangling before.

Just three years ago, Arctic researchers witnessed another world leader remove thousands of scientific documents from the public domain. In 2014, then Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper closed 11 Department of Fisheries and Oceans regional libraries, including the only Arctic center. Hundreds of reports and studies containing well over a century of research were destroyed in that process – a historic loss from which we still have not recovered.

Alan B wrote:That was then, when there was usually only one original negative or document to 'doctor'.
These days 'instant' multiple copies can be made so any deletions or alterations can immediately be detected and rectified.

But that still doesn't stop the mentally deficient politicians trying the same tricks. It's part of their mentality.

The scientific community should get together and develop secure multiple database systems with encrypted access for the data originators.

WASHINGTON—Note to U.S. President Donald Trump and House Republicans: People really don’t like your approach to overhauling America’s health care. If you’re hoping to revive the effort, you may want to try something different.

Sixty-two per cent of Americans turned thumbs down on Trump’s handling of health care during the initial weeks of his presidency, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released Wednesday. It was his worst rating among seven issues the poll tested, which included the economy, foreign policy and immigration.

Of the six health coverage changes the poll assessed from the failed House GOP bill, five drew more negative than positive reviews.

An overwhelming 8 in 10 opposed the Republican proposal to let insurers boost premiums on older people. Seven in 10 disapproved of premium surcharges for people whose coverage lapses.

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By wide margins, people also disliked proposed cuts in Medicaid, which helps lower-earning people cover medical costs, a halt in federal payments to Planned Parenthood and a transformation of the Obama law’s subsidies — based on income and premium costs — into aid linked to age.

“His campaign promise was great health care for everyone, for all Americans at great prices,” said Raymond Brown, 64, a Republican and retired truck driver from Rio Grande, New Jersey. “He isn’t fulfilling his campaign promise.”

...According to Bloomberg, Trump’s order lays out “a broad blueprint for the Trump administration to dismantle the architecture that former President Barack Obama built to combat the phenomenon.”

As Trump’s White House seeks to unravel Obama’s greenhouse gas commitments, a most unlikely ally of the largest climate change compact has emerged to lobby the new president.

The Paris accord is “an effective framework for addressing the risks of climate change,” a senior Exxon official wrote in a letter to the president’s special assistant for international energy and the environment. “We welcomed the Paris Agreement when it was announced in December 2015 and again when it came into force in November 2016,” Peter Trelenberg, Exxon’s manager for environmental policy, wrote to the White House...

In the March 22 letter the official from the energy giant, which currently is under investigation for its accounting practices related to climate change, argued that the Paris Agreement presents an opportunity to support greater use of natural gas. “It is prudent that the United States remain a party to the Paris agreement to ensure a level playing field, so that global energy markets remain as free and competitive as possible,” Trelenberg wrote to the Trump administration.

Trump’s administration, however, may be more divided about the Paris Agreement than his actions convey. His secretary of state, former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, indicated last week that he would support the Paris Agreement with some relaxations and adjustments. Tillerson believes that staying with the climate deal could help the country diplomatically, according to The New York Times, while Trump’s senior adviser, Stephen Bannon, is pressing the president to officially pull the U.S. from the accord.

Former Vice President Al Gore has suggested that Trump will ultimately agree with Exxon, pointing to reports that Ivanka Trump, the first daughter who has an official role at the White House, will make climate change one of her “signature issues.”

The_Piper wrote:Exxon should invest in cheap land for wind and solar panel farms.
Bernie Sanders. How could anyone not love him?

The Death Panels Are Coming

With Obamacare open enrollment about to begin anew, rumors of trouble in Healthcare Paradise run rampant. Enrollment has dropped to 30% below Congressional Budget Office estimates; fully 1 million of the 8.1 million people who originally signed up for Obamacare dropped out.

But Obamacare’s shoddy implementation doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of its great evil. Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber quite correctly attributed the passage of Obamcare to “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” – because it turns out that Obamacare will ration care, and that the most well-respected bodies in terms of health rationing have already recommended cutting off services.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... ls-coming/