Experts fired by Trump resurrect mothballed climate website
Key takeaways
- Fired US federal workers have revived a defunct climate website — pushing back as the Trump administration escalates cuts to publicly funded science and research.
- But a group of undeterred former government workers have secured funding they say will help keep the nation in the picture about the realities of a warming world.
- Climate.gov, which had about 15 million page views in 2024 and was growing yearly, was redirected to a different NOAA site controlled by political appointees put in place by an administration hostile to climate action.
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Fired US federal workers have revived a defunct climate website — pushing back as the Trump administration escalates cuts to publicly funded science and research.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Fvm6Expertise in federal science agencies is needed to protect communities from the effects of extreme weather like the storms that flipped over cars in California last year Image: William Liang/AP Photo/picture alliance Advertisement With 100,000 federal science agency jobs and funding for weather and ocean monitoring falling victim to current US policy, experts are warning that the US is ceding its global lead in climate research. But a group of undeterred former government workers have secured funding they say will help keep the nation in the picture about the realities of a warming world.
Climate.us, built by former staff of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate.gov, aims to restore access to "accurate, accessible and scientifically rigorous" climate information, raising awareness around heat waves, storms, sea level rise and more.