Donald Trump · Executive Order · White House · Ars Technica
US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit
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Over decades, researchers in the US government and programs it sponsored built up a tremendous number of climate resources, from comprehensive analyses to massive datasets to basic explainers meant to inform the public.
Key facts
- But if you try to navigate there today, you get redirected to the climate page of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and are greeted with the following message
- On Tuesday, the team announced that it had completed the project to restore everything lost when climate.gov shut down
- But the people who put together climate.gov didn’t go away
- The team behind it, which includes several key people who built climate.gov, says it’s not satisfied with simply restoring what was lost
Summary
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. Climate.gov was gone, and the team that deleted implied that it happened because climate research somehow failed to uphold what the administration was calling “gold standard science.” But the people who put together climate.gov didn’t go away. The website features Climate.