[talk] Climate Mirror

[Brian Cully]

> On 14-Dec-2016, at 14:44, Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> wrote:
> 
> Regarding my speculation about the utility of this project: I will be
> very disturbed if people haven't already been mirroring the data, so I
> am puzzled as to why a potentially enormous change in government policy
> should make the mirroring into a pressing issue.
> 

	Welcome to acedemia. Backups for large datasets are often non-existant for all kinds of reasons, and tend to be low on the list of concerns for harried researchers who have to spend most of their time running a lab, teaching, conferences, and applying for grants in order to keep their facilities afloat.

-bjc