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government climate scientists and outside volunteers has restored a comprehensive archive of federal climate research at a new independent website, climate.us, after the Trump administration dismantled climate.gov and redirected its traffic to a stripped-down National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration page.
The team announced this week that the project to recover all material lost when climate.gov went dark is now complete — a development that carries implications for every sector from agriculture to insurance that depends on publicly accessible climate data.
How Washington Pulled the Plug The shutdown was formalized through a redirect citing Executive Order 14303, titled "Restoring Gold Standard Science," and a June 23, 2025 memorandum from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy titled "Agency Guidance for Implementing Gold Standard Science in the Conduct & Management of Scientific Activities." Users navigating to climate.gov are now met with a message invoking three federal statutes — 15 USC § 2904, 15 USC § 2934, and 33 USC § 893a — and pointed toward NOAA.gov/climate and its affiliate sites.
The framing implied that climate.gov's content had failed to meet the administration's scientific standards, a characterization the people who built the site plainly reject.
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