Make GPS Nuclear Detonation Detection Data Public: Dan Baker

Dan Baker, Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has an interesting op-ed in the New York Times this morning. He wants the government to make public data collected by the Global Positioning System (GPS) as it monitors the Earth looking for signs of nuclear detonations. He says the “mounds of environmental data” collected by GPS’ Nuclear Detonation Detection System could help in our understanding of global warming, but it is not made available to scientists because of a bureaucracy that assumes that “because some of the data might be sensitive, all of it must be protected.”