"The database of federal global warming research recreates a website that was closed amid the administration’s broad retreat from climate science."
"A small group of former government workers has recreated a valuable climate-science website that had been shuttered last year under the Trump administration.
The new site, climate.us, is an effort by former staff members at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to present climate science previously housed at climate.gov, including data, reports, articles, and congressionally mandated national climate assessments.
The new site is effectively the “first full clone” of climate.gov, said Rebecca Lindsey, managing director of climate.us. It became fully active on Tuesday morning.
Last February, Ms. Lindsey was among the hundreds of NOAA workers laid off from the agency as Trump administration staffing cuts swept the federal government. Then, last June, climate.gov was effectively shuttered. The web address redirected to a different NOAA website and Ms. Lindsey said that some of the information was no longer accessible. “They hid the front door” to a trove of climate data and other resources used by researchers, teachers, and journalists, Ms. Lindsey said. “It was heartbreaking.”
At the time, the government had also taken down the website for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which housed the federal government’s national climate reports and other information about how the United States can adapt to climate change. And last July, the Department of Energy issued a report that downplayed the dangers of a warming world. (A judge later deemed the report unlawful.)"
Quinn Glabicki reports for the New York Times June 23, 2026.
