When the Trump administration began taking down federal resources on climate change, I started pre-emptively archiving reports and data sets in the event that they’re no longer accessible. That proved to be a smart move, as the NCA5 website just went dark this week. That’s a huge blow to the layperson, as that was one of the most comprehensive resources on climate change for our nation. Thankfully I had the data backed up on multiple hard drives and cloud servers, so we can continue to provide this information to those who need it.

So far I’ve archived the following resources (which are no longer available from their official websites):

The following resources are still live, but I’ve archived them pre-emptively for safety:

What other US government resources might be on the chopping block? I’m primarily looking for reports and data related to climate change, resilience, and adaptation, and ideally in a downloadable format (PDF, Excel, CSV, etc.).

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Archive everything twice. This regime will take anything and everything down that it can.

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      1 day ago

      They took down all the information on the NASA website about the Russian Venera Venus probe program. That shit was landmark space history and was frankly amazing. I made a post about it, but nobody seemed to care much.

      • relianceschool@slrpnk.netOP
        1·
        17 hours ago

        I’m personally focused on climate change, but where did you post that? And is there any way to archive that information? (Archive.org most likely saved a snapshot of the page.) The vast majority of the stuff I post gets single-digit upvotes, I think part of it is just a userbase issue. Even main page posts only get a few comments, I don’t think we’ll see real traction and engagement until the number of total users goes up by 10x.

        • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          17 hours ago

          Oddly, my post has vanished. Who could ever have imagined? Here is the original comment I made with most of the information about the program, that inspired me to start doing the research that led me to the discovery that it had been pulled down from nasa.gov

          https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18525935

          EDIT: I found the text of the post that I had saved:

          It appears that nearly all content related to the Soviet Venera Venus program has been scrubbed from nasa.gov. Pages that were clearly there—based on existing links and references—are now dead or redirect to generic pages. For a program that achieved the first landing on another planet, the first photos from a planetary surface, and the only audio ever recorded on Venus, this sudden erasure is… suspicious.

          Given our president’s weird nostalgia for the Cold War and general fondness for Russia, I genuinely can’t figure out the angle here—maybe it’s just about downplaying non-American accomplishments in space? No idea. But it’s strange.

          When I asked ChatGPT to generate a post about this, it danced around the fact for several tries, repeating vague lines about the importance of remembering historical missions but refusing to directly say the content had been scrubbed from nasa.gov. Which, honestly, isn’t surprising—but it’s still dismaying. I wasn’t expecting this particular bit of weirdness, and I don’t love what it suggests.