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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. And people
within the government built the climate.gov website to make it all accessible.
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:
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.
Climate.gov was essentially 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. While the
government didn’t hesitate to delete inconvenient climate information,
dedicated volunteers outside the government managed to preserve copies of much
of the material, which the federal government is prohibited from copyrighting.
The volunteers and former climate.gov admins got together and launched
climate.us. On Tuesday, the team announced that it had completed the project to
restore everything lost when climate.gov shut down."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
