Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump

Climate Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump June 26, 20265:00 AM ET By  Scott Neuman An employee looks at multiple hurricane models displayed on monitors at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center in Miami on May 30, 2025. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Scientists, educators, farmers and the broader public now have a new website for climate information in the United States. The site, Climate.us, launched this week and fills a void left when a government-run climate information website was shut down last year by the Trump administration. The new site was created by former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — the government's lead scientific agency for climate, weather and ocean monitoring — who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cutbacks. Sponsor Message Climate.gov had long been a trusted source for official government climate data. Nearly 1 million visitors came to the site each month, according to 2021 numbers. Most of the data remains technically accessible on government servers, but it is difficult to find, according to Rebecca Lindsey, a former program director for Climate.gov who now heads the Climate.us project. In August 2025, she and two other former NOAA employees who helped run the government site began to re-create it. Climate A popular climate website will be hobbled, after Trump administration eliminates entire staff "This information is too important. It should remain in a protected place," Lindsey says. As of June 24, 2025, users going to the NOAA climate site are presented with a page saying: "In compliance with Executive Order 14303 … Future research products previously housed under Climate.gov will be available at NOAA.gov/climate and its affiliate websites." When NPR asked for com...