From Climate.gov to the National Climate Assessment, climate information you can trust is being hidden, erased, and replaced with misinformation. We’re not letting that happen. We’re building Climate.us—independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics. But we can't do it without you.
Donate NowClimate.us will be a nonprofit successor to Climate.gov, delivering climate data and information to promote public climate literacy and to equip people to turn knowledge into meaningful conversations and climate-conscious actions. At a moment when critical climate information is being deleted or distorted, we are stepping up to rescue key climate resources—including the U.S. Global Change Research Program's now-deleted Fifth National Climate Assessment—and to ensure the public has continued easy access to the facts. Our goal is to to build an enduring, independent, and scientifically rigorous platform that the world can rely on for climate communication, education, and engagement.
For more than a decade, NOAA’s Climate.gov website has been the U.S. government’s premier platform for climate information for the public. In the first half of 2025, NOAA terminated Climate.gov’s full-time federal and contractor staff, shutting down the site's daily operations.
Now, former members of the Climate.gov team have joined together with nonprofit partners to launch Climate.us: a successor to Climate.gov outside the federal domain, where we can safeguard climate information from political interference.
Explainers, Q&As, and magazine-style stories and graphics explaining climate science in plain language.
Informal posts written by climate experts, but polished with the help of our editorial and graphics team.
Timely updates on the climate influences—natural and human-caused— on extreme weather.
Visual status reports on key global climate indicators, from sea level rise to El Niño.
Tools, image galleries, and pathways to data for exploring climate trends and projections.
The latest version of the interagency guide to the essential principles of climate science.
Classroom resources for teaching climate, selected by educators and reviewed by scientists.
The Fifth National Climate Assessment: the leading report on U.S. climate impacts, risks, and opportunities for adaptation.
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While we raise funds for Climate.us in fall 2025, we'll be working to stand up an improved archive of Climate.gov. Currently, publicly archived copies of Climate.gov suffer from one of two limitations. Those made prior to January 17, 2025, are missing all the stories and other content we published before we ceased operations in June 2025. Those made after January 17 are missing content that was removed by executive order or at the direction of political appointees. Our improved archive will combine the pre-January content with the post-January content to provide a complete "uncensored" archive of Climate.gov as it should have been at the end of June. Link coming soon.
Read More Updates“Climate.gov serves an essential function in American society: it acts as a bridge between highly trained scientists who generate climate data and the general public that needs to understand and use it. The shuttering of Climate.gov would have both near-term and long-term national security consequences.” Caroline Baxter & Noah Fritzhand, Council on Strategic Risks
“I’m an earth science major and just finished my freshman year of college. I’ve been reading your blogs and posts since 2019 and it solidified my love for the earth sciences even more. Please archive your website if you can. I’d still love to share these well written analyses of oceanic and atmospheric sciences with friends and for classes.” Chris C, college student
“Climate.gov, NOAA’s climate-science crown jewel, was one of the U.S. government’s most trusted and accessible portals for climate science. For nearly fifteen years, it provided access to live, downloadable datasets and interactive tools that allowed teachers, reporters, and planners to explore climate data in real time. Every article was written in plain language yet vetted by PhD scientists, accompanied by methodological notes and citations to ensure transparency. The site embodied the very ideals of “Gold Standard Science”—reproducible, transparent, clearly communicating error and uncertainty, and consistently subject to peer review. Climate.gov set a benchmark for clarity, rigor, and credibility in public climate communication.” Dr. Jacob Carter, SciLight, science policy researcher
“As a member of Raleigh NC’s Environmental Advisory Board, I frequently used resources at Climate.gov to prepare presentations and to understand how Raleigh should respond to changing conditions. As a wildlife gardener, I use Climate.gov to understand how changing temperatures and precipitation will affect plants and wildlife. As a human being, I use climate science to help me understand and protect our amazing, living world. Eager to support you at Climate.us.” Linda Watson, author, speaker
“We currently face a firehose of social media disinformation and grey literature information that appears credible. The public may not know how to filter and decipher good climate science information. That makes the efforts of climate.us a great service to our nation, the world, and humanity.” Dr. Marshall Shepherd, former American Meteorological Society president, as quoted in Forbes
“Clever writing + accessible material + fantastic graphics= my life as an instructor has been made easier thanks to these resources. Not only do my students better understand phenomena like ENSO and the MJO, I have more fun teaching those topics thanks to Climate.gov resources like the ENSO blog!” Dr. Kim Wood, Associate Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
“For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme weather/climate education effort to date. [Their shutdown] will be a huge loss.” Dr. Daniel Swain, climate scientist, science communicator, University of California Agriculture & Natural Resources
“Keep an eye on Climate.us as the talented and informed pros who were climate.gov are rising up privately to provide objective and science-based information for everyone. NOAA and other science agencies are being politicized, but Climate.us will remain informed, objective, and truthful.” Capt. Craig McLean, Retired Assistant Administrator for Research, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
“I’ve been an avid reader of the ENSO blog for quite a long time now. I’ve learned so much from your posts, and the blog has helped me immensely in my column for Discover Magazine. The lively, engaging and often humorous writing about complex scientific concepts by you and other blog authors has been an inspiration to me. Thank you for everything you’ve done to help advance public understanding of weather and climate generally, and ENSO in particular.” Tom Yulsman, Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder
“Trusted information on our shifting climate is critical for youth, communities, businesses, governments and other decision-makers to take informed and needed climate actions in their lives and for our collective future. Climate.us is filling a void left by the Federal administration’s withdrawal of resources for this critical societal information infrastructure. At a base level Climate.us provides a needed, trusted source of uninterrupted information that educators and students can explore to make sense of a wide range of changing climate related topics such as local flooding, food production, emergency management, and clean energy transitions.” Dr. Deb Morrison, IPCC AR7 Lead Author
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