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On tonight's episode: The rush to preserve climate-change data from "Trump-scrubbing."
For the past several months, University of Guelph geography professor Eric Nost has been working with the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI) to safeguard climate change and other data sets being removed by the Trump administration.
"A lot of what we're archiving and safeguarding is very basic biophysical indicators of climate changes, environmental conditions that are really important means by which we understand how the climate is changing," said Nost. "We've also made sure to prioritize data sets that tell us who is impacted by changing climate and environmental conditions, which we've seen be a real target of this administration."
SEE: U of G prof helping preserve climate change data from Trump-scrubbing
So far, Nost said the group has managed to archive approximately 60 data sets ranging from sea level rise estimates to wildfire risk predictions and pollution data sets.
GuelphToday reporter Isabel Buckmaster covered the story and joins us tonight with all the details. You can read her article HERE.
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