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These days reporters are interviewing me again about the Azimuth Climate Data Backup Project - because we're again facing the possibility that a Trump administration could get rid of the US government's climate data.

From 2016 to 2018, our team backed up up 30 terabytes of US government databases on climate change and the environment, saving it from the threat of a government run by climate change deniers. 627 people contributed a total of $20,427 to our project on Kickstarter to pay for storage space and a server.

That project is done now, with the data stored in a secret permanent location. But that data is old, and there's plenty more by now.

As before, I'm hoping that the people at NOAA, NASA, etc. have quietly taken their own precautions. They're in a much better position to do it!

I got interviewed for this New York Times article about the current situation:

• Austyn Gaffney, How Trump's return could affect climate and weather data, New York Times, November 14, 2024. https://archive.is/y5Qb9

For what we actually did, read this:

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/azimuth_backup_project/