#climate.us

The new website will be climate.us. I just visited the site, and it is up and running, for now as an introduction and asking for seed money. Here's the one-minute video from the site:

Excerpt from this CNN story:

A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including a landmark, congressionally mandated report and the contents of the climate.gov website.

The data, writings and reports will be hosted at climate.us, according to Rebecca Lindsey, a former project manager for climate.gov, and will focus on information that is readily understandable by the public.

Lindsey was fired last winter along with other probationary employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, while other climate.gov contributors’ contracts were canceled.

Climate.gov now redirects users to a different NOAA website controlled by political appointees, Lindsey said. The library of information the public used to have access to, on everything from El Niño to rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, is no longer available.

“This information is valuable,” Lindsey said of climate.gov. “Our team is valuable. We’ve been working together for more than a decade. We have deep experience serving the public with information and explaining climate and climate change, and the government has already made a huge investment in this content. It’s ridiculous. It’s absurd to think that they’re going to just take it all down and hide it away.”

The new push to save climate.gov and the climate assessment’s website involves the initial help of the nonprofit organization Multiplier, which also helps provide support for the data rescuing group Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, Lindsey said.

Those involved in the climate.us project are also seeking seed funding and planning a crowdfunding campaign to save other climate information that is going dark or being modified with misinformation by the Trump administration, Lindsey said. For example, earlier this month the Department of Energy released a report written by five climate contrarians that attempted to poke holes in widely accepted climate science findings and argued the problem isn’t nearly as significant as mainstream climate research shows.

Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government.

US’s climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit

I just posted a story from the New York Times about the efforts of former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who were fired by trump to reconstruct former climate web sites shut down by trump. They have that, under the new, non-governmental website climate.us. This post includes an excerpt from the story about climate.us, from the perspective of those who assembled it.

Climate.us today launched the full version of its new independent, nonprofit climate information website, creating a public-backed home for trusted climate science at a time when access to federal climate resources has become increasingly vulnerable to disruption.

The launch reflects strong public demand for reliable climate information. One-third of the funding to support the launch of Climate.us came from more than 2,500 small donations (approximately $250,000) from people who contributed to help preserve access to science-reviewed climate information. More than 80 scientists have volunteered to serve as subject matter expert reviewers.

Built by former members of the team behind the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's popular Climate.gov website, Climate.us will keep climate information accurate, accessible, scientifically rigorous, and useful for the people who rely on it, including educators, students, journalists, scientists, community leaders, local and state decision-makers, and members of the public.

“Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change,” said Rebecca Lindsey, Managing Director of Climate.us. “Climate.us is building an independent, durable platform so people can continue to find the data and information they need to understand and talk about climate, and to teach, report, plan, prepare, and make informed decisions.”

The website features Climate.gov's 15-year collection of climate news and stories, expert blogs, visual status reports on key climate indicators, maps and data pathways, climate literacy resources, classroom materials, and restored access to the Fifth National Climate Assessment.

Excerpt:

A small group of former government workers has recreated a valuable climate-science website that had been shuttered last year under the Trump administration.

The new site, climate.us, is an effort by former staff members at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to present climate science previously housed at climate.gov, including data, reports, articles, and congressionally mandated national climate assessments.

The new site is effectively the “first full clone” of climate.gov, said Rebecca Lindsey, managing director of climate.us. It became fully active on Tuesday morning.

Last February, Ms. Lindsey was among the hundreds of NOAA workers laid off from the agency as Trump administration staffing cuts swept the federal government. Then, last June, climate.gov was effectively shuttered. The web address redirected to a different NOAA website and Ms. Lindsey said that some of the information was no longer accessible. “They hid the front door” to a trove of climate data and other resources used by researchers, teachers, and journalists, Ms. Lindsey said. “It was heartbreaking.”

At the time, the government had also taken down the website for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which housed the federal government’s national climate reports and other information about how the United States can adapt to climate change. And last July, the Department of Energy issued a report that downplayed the dangers of a warming world. (A judge later deemed the report unlawful.)

Last summer, Ms. Lindsey, along with a small team of former NOAA staff members, crowdsourced roughly $280,000, she said, and began a tedious process of sifting through the archived site, recataloging and re-linking more than a thousand reports, data sets, articles and other resources.