07/29/2026
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A climate website shut down by the government is back – rebuilt by the scientists who were fired.
Former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched Climate.us, an independent nonprofit website designed to restore easy public access to authoritative U.S. climate information.
The team previously worked on Climate.gov, which had served for nearly 15 years as NOAA’s main public platform for climate data, maps, educational resources and plain-language explanations.
Its staff were eliminated during federal workforce cuts in 2025, ending the website’s daily operations. The archived version of Climate.gov is no longer updated or maintained.
Much of NOAA’s underlying data remained publicly available, but it was scattered across government servers and difficult for ordinary users to locate or understand.
Climate.us was created to restore that missing “front door.”
The new website was built by former Climate.gov staff, including its former program manager Rebecca Lindsey, along with nonprofit partners and volunteer scientists. More than 80 experts have agreed to review its material for scientific accuracy.
More than 2,500 people contributed roughly $250,000 toward the launch, providing about one-third of its initial funding.
The website restores Climate.gov’s climate dashboard, which includes graphs tracking carbon dioxide, global temperatures, sea levels, Arctic ice and other indicators.
It also hosts climate news, expert blogs, maps, classroom resources and around 15 years of archived explanatory material produced by the former government team.
The new organization says it will follow the same nonpartisan philosophy as Climate.gov: explaining what scientific evidence and public data show without telling people which political policies to support.
Its first updated resources include information on El Niño, solar activity and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Climate.us reported that carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa reached a new monthly record of 432.34 parts per million in May 2026.
The project also raises a broader question about the future of public scientific information.
Government agencies collect vast quantities of weather and climate data using satellites, ocean buoys, monitoring stations and research programs. But raw data are far less useful when the experts who explain and organize them are removed.
Climate.us is intended to protect that information from future political disruption.
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"Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump." NPR