Trump-Shuttered Climate Change Site Now Back Online In Nonprofit Hands
15 111Donald Trump shuttered the web site Climate.gov in 2025, cutting off public access to climate information from America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
But "former members of the site's team have brought much of it back at a new domain," reports The Register: "Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change," Climate.us managing director Rebecca Lindsey said of the new platform in a press release. Lindsey, who previously served as the Climate.gov program manager and lead editor, told The Register in an email that she and one of the web developers responsible for the site were the first to be caught up in government purges when DOGE swept through the department in late February 2025... Created in cooperation with sustainability nonprofit accelerator Multiplier, Climate.us aims to be an independent alternative to its old .gov, and many of the former NOAA crew behind the previous website have teamed up for the new initiative to "keep climate information accurate, accessible, scientifically rigorous, and useful for the people who rely on it."
Climate.gov, which now redirects to a NOAA page about climate but which hosts none of the data the shuttered site used to contain, was taken offline in July 2025 following a Trump executive order prioritizing "gold standard science...." arguing that prior climate science models relied on worst-case scenarios, which somehow meant the public availability of 15 years of climate data and reporting ought to change...
All of the content that was purged from the .gov is now back, along with blogs from experts, climate status reports, maps and data pathways, and national assessments of climate change as well. Lindsey told us that rapidly changing political winds have led her to believe that the government isn't the right place for that mission to continue, and that she would have concerns about returning the site to federal management if a future administration changed its position on climate change... Lindsey said that the Climate.us team will continue with the same mission it had before the Trump administration attempted to quash it: Getting climate science in front of the public in a manner that's understandable so they can make their own decisions about how to respond.
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Probably for the better in the long run (Score: 5, Interesting)
by T34L ( 10503334 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:22AM (#66215020)
With the global climatology science no longer relying on support and funding from one of the worst sources of pollution and environmental damage, we'll finally see which end of the scale has had a thumb on it for the longest time. I'm not sure, but pretty confident, the new image of what we're dealing with will be actually worse than what's been generally presented as the "consensus" so far. Like with most efforts of this administration, the long term effect on the world is probably gonna be the exact opposite of what they're trying to do.
Re:Probably for the better in the long run (Score: 5, Insightful)
by evanh ( 627108 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:49AM (#66215146)
What are they trying to do? It seems like to me that they want a catastrophe on the presumption that they'll end up on top. It's another variant of "might-is-right." It fits the war mongering mentality. Take what can be taken, stab em' in the back, generally being a cunt of a person. Black heart syndrome.
Re:Probably for the better in the long run (Score: 5, Interesting)
by Sique ( 173459 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:31AM (#66215178)
The fact is that the catastrophe happens, no matter what. But there are people wanting to hide it for as long as possible, while others think that getting prepared because of solid information available beforehand makes some sense.
Climate change happens, and it is hanging fast, faster than ever in recorded geological times.
All's left to do is to answer three questions:
There are people wanting to dodge the questions, especially the third one by hand waving and mumbling something about economy, technological advance and the market forces. And there are people who want answers.
Re:Probably for the better in the long run (Score: 5, Informative)
by evanh ( 627108 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:13AM (#66215288)
The catastrophe did not have to happen. Some restraint would've gone a long way. And significant directed investment would've made a big difference on alternative energy sources.
We had plenty of warning. Science knew the potential climatic behaviour a hundred years ago. Scientists measured the distinct trajectory in the 1960s. The knowledge to take action was understood by 1970. Nevertheless, by 1988 a full published study was presented at the UN - As a call for political action.
We all know how the politics subsequently played out. Exactly the wrong path was taken.
Re:Probably for the better in the long run (Score: 5, Informative)
by Barsteward ( 969998 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:42AM (#66215220)
As CO2 stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, lets have a look at the cumulative emissions since 1750 Oh look, USA at the top with Europe 2nd and China 3rd. [ourworldindata.org]
Re:Probably for the better in the long run (Score: 5, Interesting)
by Barsteward ( 969998 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:57AM (#66215232)
China population:- 1,412,914,089
USA population:- 349,035,494
So China is just over 4 times the size of USA
China emissions:- 13,124,727,993
USA emissions:- 4,632,164,876
That makes China's emissions just below 3 times as bad - so who is really the more polluting especially when China is making all the stuff Westerners buy?
Re:Probably for the better in the long run (Score: 5, Insightful)
by OzoneLad ( 899155 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:42AM (#66215410)
What an ignorant take. One could easily dispute that the totality of the American economy is "one of the worst sources of pollution and environmental damage", but the US government is NOT the totality of the American economy.
True. The American government is merely a fully-owned subsidiary at this point.
Convenient (Score: 5, Informative)
by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:47AM (#66215024)
The archived Climate.gov site alongside the live Climate.us site will provide a convenient way to compare climate statistics after Trump's term with the data that he deliberately froze in 2025.
The U.S. is by no means the only contributor to climate change, but its inaction has undoubtedly played a significant role in worsening the situation.
Re:Convenient (Score: 5, Interesting)
by chefren ( 17219 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:01AM (#66215064)
He might have inadvertently also contributed to the green transition with the Iran war exposing how vulnerable oil dependency really is. An optimist can hope that these even out.
Re:Convenient (Score: 5, Interesting)
by vivian ( 156520 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:18AM (#66215212)
The war in Iran was the direct reason I decided to maximise the system I could put on my new roof - and oversize the battery. I was expecting oil prices and energy costs to go high and stay high.
I ended up installing 10kw of 23% efficient solar panels was all I could fit on the approximately 100sqm north side of my roof. They are paired with a FoxESS 9.9kw single phase inverter and a 48kwh stack of Fox CQ7 batteries.
I might have slightly oversized on the batteries but over the last three weeks since it was installed, including rainy and cloudy days I have been 98% energy independent (the inverter always draws a little power from the grid) while exporting 15 to about 34kwh a day.
A 25kwh battery would probably do just as well for home power most days, though obviously with less energy arbitrage capacity.
At 15k AUD for the whole setup and warrantied stored power throughput of 178 MWh that will work out to about 6c/kwh for any stored solar power power I am using from the battery, so if the grid export price is significantly above that its worth exporting excess power and turning a profit, to help cover the electricity providers fixed connection fees.
Its the beginning of "winter" here now (where the temperature plunges to 16 centigrade at night and I sometimes even have to wear a light sweater.
In Summer I'm going to be drowning in excess power, even with my AC cranked because the house is pretty well insulated.
It really is possible to use renewables to completely cover your energy needs with a modest up front investment (esp. compared to the overall cost of a house) , and it's only going to get cheaper and more environmentally friendly as sodium ion batteries ramp up in production.
My next car will be electric or plugin hybrid for sure.
I remember when that happened (Score: 5, Insightful)
by RitchCraft ( 6454710 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:14AM (#66215038)
It was a complete dip-shit move to shutter that site.
Mr. Universe - I mean, Climate? (Score: 5, Funny)
by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:59AM (#66215096)
All of the content that was purged from the .gov is now back ...
The DOGE Guy killed me, Mal. He killed me with a chainsaw. How weird is that? I got... a short span here... they destroyed my .gov equipment but I have a back-up unit... bottom of the complex, right over the generator. Hard to get to. I know they missed it. They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal.
George Martin said it best (Score: 5, Interesting)
by Ol Olsoc ( 1175323 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:33AM (#66215260)
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
The idea that science data can be muted, and go away in the age of the internet is remarkably stupid. Climate science being suppressed is in the same vein as the old communist concept of Lamarckism, where creatures evolve in immediate time - politics, trying to impose itself on physics.
And 100 percent certain that those practicing the forbidden science have archived their science, maybe storing some copies In Svalbard. I'm waiting for our politicos to have voting on the speed of light, or making Pi equal to three like the bible tells us.
Re:Nope (Score: 5, Insightful)
by Moryath ( 553296 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:46PM (#66215764)
Well that's what you get when the GOP are now the Retardican Senilefucking Klanbitchbags Party. Every member of the GOP are either lunatic insane depends-shitting Senile Fucking Klantrash like Trump, or Russian Owned Nazi Treason Cunt Shit like Miller.
Re:The Working Class Ruin Everything (Score: 5, Informative)
by F.Ultra ( 1673484 ) on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:00AM (#66215346)
Taxpayer-Funded Travel: Data from OpenSecrets has shown that Republican congressional offices have spent more on taxpayer-funded travel than Democrats in recent years
Privately Funded Travel: Tracking by LegiStorm indicates that Republican members of Congress often outpace Democrats in accepting privately sponsored trips and travel expenses.
So you lied there, and then you lied to you daughter by pretending that the Southern Strategy never happened...