>They will store backup versions of climate simulations from the other side of the Atlantic. The operation aims to ensure that essential work performed by U.S. scientists for the next major U.N. climate assessment, due in 2029, cannot be meddled with or compromised by the administration of President Trump
Makes sense
Trump et al. being in control of US government data honestly feels like vikings have been put in charge of the Anglo-Saxon monasteries or Christian zealots in charge of the Library of Alexandria.
Imagine all the productive things the EU could do if they stopped channeling emotional teenage angst, maybe they tried to make their own AWS, or facebook. Instead, we get this, and the Canada thing.
It really is cringey.
Like few tb raid array?
For few, read hundreds. Climate data is more than a temperature reading every hour.
How exactly would a nation state meddle with the ICCC report? Also why? The report is pretty clear that we don’t really understand the origins of climate change.