RetroFed
US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
Climate.gov was essentially gone, and the team that deleted implied that it happened because climate research somehow failed to uphold what the administration was calling “gold standard science.”
But the people who put together climate.gov didn’t go away. While the government didn’t hesitate to delete inconvenient climate information, dedicated volunteers outside the government managed to preserve copies of much of the material, which the federal government is prohibited from copyrighting. The volunteers and former climate.gov admins got together and launched climate.us. On Tuesday, the team announced that it had completed the project to restore everything lost when climate.gov shut down.
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Good that it’s being brought back, but this is exactly what conservatives count on to spackle over their own deficiencies.
God fucking damnit. I can’t say what I want to say here…
But huge kudos to these soldiers keeping the information up and available.
quick_snailvolunteers outside the government managed to preserve copies of much of the material, which the federal government is prohibited from copyrighting
Ugh, when are we going to fix this?
Copyleft requires copyright. We need to force all this data to be copyleft.
volunteers and former climate.gov admins got together and launched climate.us
We really need to get the sources on all government websites on github, so we don’t need the people who built the original website.
Anyone should be able to rehost it in less than an hour.
How about something other than Microsoft’s computers?
How does an NGO get a .gov?
Edit: they didn’t. They bought climate.us
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