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Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information

For more than a decade, NOAA’s Climate.gov website was among the U.S. government’s most important platforms for climate information for the public. At the start of 2025, if someone in the U.S. googled “climate,” Climate.gov was the top result. It served 15+ million visitors in 2024 and had more than half a million social media followers and its reach was growing every year.

In the first half of 2025, Trump administration officials at NOAA terminated Climate.gov’s full-time federal and contractor staff, ordered removal of content, and redirected the home page to a page under more direct control of political appointees. With little fanfare, Climate.gov found itself unable to continue its operations which would deprive the public of a highly trusted source of climate information. Finding themselves unable to permit this loss, former Climate.gov staff decided to take matters into their own hands to continue the site's mission. In June, 2026, they launched Climate.us, as a new online platform that will carry on the legacy of Climate.gov and even expand its scope.

A new home outside the federal domain allows the team to rescue Climate.gov and other federal assets, including the Fifth National Climate Assessment, bringing key climate information together under one roof. The Climate.gov team, which has long excelled at delivering elegant content through which the public, journalists, educators, and students could easilylearn about climate, will now build a next-generation platform expanded to serve new audiences—climate service providers, community planners, app developers, etc.—seeking data and tools for analysis and decision-making.

Climate.us is now run by an independent nonprofit entity hosted and managed by Multiplier, a 501(c)(3) organization. An advisory panel with members representing target audiences and stakeholders will guide the site’s scope of contents and utility; science and data experts will help content teams ensure information is based on the best available science. We are thrilled by the heroic actions of the Climate.gov staff and their bold, forward-thinking strategy to safeguard public access to vital, trusted climate data and services. We have provided a donation in support of this effort and hope you will too. Please visit the Climate.us fundraising site and consider providing support in any amount.

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Climate.gov, no longer providing climate data according to this notice:

UPDATED: June 24, 2025. 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.us, rising from the ashes of Climate.gov.

GiveButter Climate.us Launches New Independent Website for Trusted Climate Informtion by the climate.us team.

YouTube Video, “Climate.us: independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics”, May 2025.

The Guardian, Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump, by Eric Holthaus, Aug 30, 2025.

New York Times, Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration, by Quinn Glabicki, June 23, 2026.

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Sarah Kaplan's review on the findings released by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in their report "State of the Climate in 2020," as described in a Washington Post article entitled Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds, gives this prognosis: "Earth is arguably in worse shape than it’s been."

Even with a global pandemic that halted commerce and human activities for most of the year, Earth's fever has simply increased and global health metrics—including that for CO2 levels—have just continued to get worse. It's a dire report but nothing new, coming on the heels of the IPCC's "Physical Basis" report and follows along on the same trajectory as eleven prior reports published annually by NOAA.

NOAA’s assessment, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, draws on the work of 530 scientists from 66 countries. Atmospheric researchers found no evidence that last year’s 6 to 7% dip in global annual emissions had any lasting effect. The roughly 2 gigatons of carbon dioxide not emitted during the most severe pandemic-related shutdowns have been dwarfed by the more than 1,500 gigatons humans have unleashed since the Industrial Revolution began.

“It’s a record that keeps playing over and over again,” said Jessica Blunden, a NOAA climate scientist who has co-led “State of the Climate” reports for 11 years. “Things are getting more and more intense every year because emissions are happening every year.”.

Because carbon dioxide typically lingers in the atmosphere for a few hundred to 1,000 years, humans will have to stop emitting for much longer than a few months to make a meaningful dent in concentrations of the pollutant. Methane concentrations were also found to have spiked dramatically — rising 14.8 parts per billion to its highest level in millennia. The drilling and distribution of natural gas helps drive up methane emissions. But it is also produced by microbes found in both natural environments such as wetlands and human-built ones such as landfills and farms.

While a spike from natural gas usage is bad, the more worrying possibility is that this increase comes from natural methane sources — such as salt marshes, peatlands and mangrove forests — which would be indicative that we have reached a tipping point, where higher temperatures boost microbe action within thawing permafrost areas. This could continue to add methane for a long time to come, at ever increasing levels, even if we were able to successfully reduce emissions from fossil fuel usage.

Read the Washington Post's Many measures of Earth’s health are at worst levels on record, NOAA finds, by Sarah Kaplan and published August 28, 2021.

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Vital Climate Science Resource Re-emerges As Non-Profit

Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information

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Earth’s health at worst levels on record