Climate scientists will launch anonymous hotline for government workers to report Trump meddling

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I'm a bit late but I thought I'd weigh in.

[QUOTE=TheNukeNL;51562097]Aren't they a bit paranoid about this, sure Trump got a different view when it comes to climate changes but all the steps they are taking seem a bit excessive to me.[/QUOTE]

No they are not.

[QUOTE]...the closure of seven of the eleven Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries across Canada. Local media outlets have reported dumpsters full of books. The Winnipeg-based North/South Consultants brought a flatbed truck to the closure of the library at the University of Manitoba's Freshwater Institute and packed it full with the history of Canadian water.

[URL="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fisheries-and-oceans-library-closings-called-loss-to-science-1.2486171"]In an interview with the CBC[/URL], former fisheries minister Tom Siddon called the move "Orwellian, because some might suspect that it's driven by a notion to exterminate all unpopular scientific findings that interfere with the government's economic objectives."[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/desmog-canada/destruction-of-dfo-libraries_b_4569748.html"]It fucking happened a couple years ago in Canada for exactly the same reasons people are afraid enough to be hoarding data out of reach of the Trump administration.[/URL]

[QUOTE=TheNukeNL;51562193]He is not even in office yet and besides [B]what is going to do round up all the climate scientists in the US and destroy there data in one big bon fire?[/B]
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I swear all this fear mongering regarding Trump and what he might to do is just getting ridiculous.[/QUOTE]

Hi, I'm Canadian, and this is my rape story.

[QUOTE=TheNukeNL;51562340]Well i did a search for it and was able to find that yes Canada did remove some monitering stations and removed some data. But what exact data regarding climate change they removed i am unable to find. So you got any sources on what exact data was lost in Canada regarding climate change?[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/10/01/news/feds-penny-pinched-science-libraries-while-lavishing-funds-religion-and-oil"]Here's some more reading on oilman Harper's despotic budget-slashing of important and sometimes-critical public services and systems and spending the money on his favourite things, oil and Christianity.[/URL]
[QUOTE]Between 2007 and 2009, Wells wrote a chapter on the history of the famed St. Andrew's Biological Station (SABS) in New Brunswick for collaborative book called A Century of Maritime Science, scheduled for release mid-winter. A few years later, the library at SABS was shut down by DFO, and Wells said if he tried to write that chapter again today, the research simply wouldn't exist.

"I could not have written this book chapter without the archival materials and other materials in the library at that time," he explained. “We’ve lost capacity in terms of people, we’ve lost information, we’ve lost reputation both nationally and internationally."

"Plain and simple, it's a "disaster," he said.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Vlevs;51562398][URL="https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/the-harper-government-has-trashed-and-burned-environmental-books-and-documents"]https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/the-harper-government-has-trashed-and-burned-environmental-books-and-documents
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[B]Edit:[/B] Was mistaken on details. Not climate change data per se, but old old records on oceans that are useful in climate research.[/QUOTE]
The data sets themselves were partially destroyed - more than a century of world-class environmental observation data. The very data that proves that climate change is real and is an accelerating phenomenon. This and many other historical records that document Canada's very history and heritage were destroyed by [URL="https://i.imgur.com/B1x1w5K.gif"]this smug fucker's decisions.[/URL]

The Library of Alexandria cannot be allowed to burn again.