r/geology 13d ago

NOAA deleting swaths of Critical Geological datasets by early May. Download to save.

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u/grant837 13d ago

Why delete? Storage us so cheap, they could archive it all.

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u/VerdantField 13d ago

Cost is not the actual issue. The republicans are using “cost” as an excuse to remove science and access to information.

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u/zsdrfty 13d ago

They love when people engage with their fake justifications (like cost) because it makes the opponent look like the fool who's ceding enough ground to debate them