US climate.gov website relaunched by nonprofit after Trump administration takes it offline

The inexplicable antics of the Trump administration have no end. Be it the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to invade Greenland, or generating crude AI videos to satirize detractors. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as many readers are undoubtedly feeling the pinch of rising living costs, bought about by the current conflict between the US-Israel axis and Iran. Not to mention the warming planet and the climate crisis, a topic that has been swept under the rug in favor of deregulation, fossil fuel expansion and a "drill, baby, drill" approach to energy production.

Last year in June, the US government's climate.gov website was effectively taken down and its web address redirected to the climate page of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The justification given for the deletion was that the climate research failed to uphold what the administration labeled "gold standard science."

In compliance with Executive Order 14303 (“Restoring Gold Standard Science”), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s June 23, 2025 Memorandum (“Agency Guidance for Implementing Gold Standard Science in the Conduct & Management of Scientific Activities”), 15 USC § 2904 (“National Climate Program”), 15 USC § 2934 (“National Global Change Research Plan”), and 33 USC § 893a (“NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Science Education Programs”), you have been redirected to NOAA.gov. Future research products previously housed under Climate.gov will be available at NOAA.gov/climate and its affiliate websites.

The team behind climate.gov, however, refused to let their work disappear. In spite of the government's willingness to redact inconvenient climate data from public access, a group of dedicated volunteers stepped in to salvage much of the content and create climate.us as an independent replacement. Yesterday, June 23, the team announced that it had successfully finished restoring all of the content that was lost when climate.gov was taken offline.

Furthermore, the team has formed a nonprofit to oversee the site's ongoing operations, with ambitions that extend well beyond restoration. Looking forward, they intend to create new tools and fresh educational content aimed at helping everyday people better understand how the climate is changing.