Trump Fired the Scientists Who Ran Noaa’s Climate Website, So They Rebuilt It Themselves at climate.us
More than 2,500 donors put in roughly $250,000 to stand up climate.us, the independent nonprofit that now hosts the data dashboards, maps, explainers, and teaching tools that once lived on NOAA’s climate.gov.
That older site went quiet in early 2025. Its small content team was laid off amid sweeping federal cuts, new material stopped going up, and the domain was redirected so years of climate information became harder to find.
Lindsey, who became program manager of climate.gov in late 2023, was among those let go. She’s called the moves a “deliberate, targeted attack” on a neutral public resource and says “trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change.”
The replacement carries the Arctic sea ice trackers, sea level and CO2 charts, the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, and the National Climate Assessments. Around 80 scientists review the content, and former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad has endorsed it as continuing the agency’s “critical function” of public climate data access.
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