Fired Climate.gov Federal Employees Resurrect Website on their Own Dime – Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

See, they didn’t need federal funding after all.

Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump

Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission

Eric Holthaus Sat 30 Aug 2025 20.00 AEST

Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov – one of the most widely used portals of climate information on the internet – was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process.

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Now, a team of climate communication experts – including many members of the former climate.gov team – is working to resurrect its content into a new organization with an expanded mission.

Their effort’s new website, climate.us, would not only offer public-facing interpretations of climate science, but could also begin to directly offer climate-related services, such as assisting local governments with mapping increased flooding risk due to climate change.

The effort is being led by climate.gov’s former managing editor, Rebecca Lindsey, who, although now unemployed, has recruited several of her former colleagues to volunteer their time in an attempt to build climate.us into a thriving non-profit organization.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/30/climate-gov-website-trump

Leaving aside the intriguing question of why a website which President Trump ordered shut down is still available online and burning federal funds, this once again demonstrates there is no need to fund alarmist climate scientists from taxpayer money. They’re all so eager to give us their opinions, they’ll keep on doing it even when the funding it removed.

This determination of alarmists to work on despite no longer being paid by taxpayers echoes events in Australia a decade ago. To quote former Aussie Prime Minister Tony Abbott, when asked in 2013 why he planned to fire climate commissioner Tim Flannery, Abbott’s response was “It does sound like an unnecessary position given the gentlemen in question gives us the benefit of his views without needing taxpayer funding.“.