Trump once claimed the concept of global warming was invented by China Canadian “guerrilla” archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data. Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research. They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office. Database geeks and computer-savvy archivists will gather in Toronto to help preserve US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. Michelle Murphy, with the University of Toronto’s Technoscience Research Unit and one of the event organisers, says concerns around climate do not stop at the border. “Thing like climate change, things like water quality, things like atmospheric pollution don’t respect jurisdictional boundaries,” she said. “If we’re approaching a moment when the United States is going to really pull back on regulations, we are also talking about something that’s continental or even planetary in scope.” On […]