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The White House took down the nation's top climate report.

edited July 1 in Off-Topic
Following are excerpts from a current NPR News report:

July 1, 20251:53 PM ET

The website that hosts the most recent edition of the National Climate Assessment has gone dark. The sprawling report is the most influential source of information about how climate change affects the United States.

The National Climate Assessment is widely used by teachers, city planners, farmers, judges and regular citizens looking for answers to common questions such as how quickly sea levels are rising near American cities and how to deal with wildfire smoke exposure. The most recent edition had a searchable atlas that allowed anyone to learn about the current and future effects of global warming in their specific town or state.

On Monday, the government website that hosts all of that information stopped working.

The Trump administration had already halted work on the next edition of the report, and fired all the staff who worked on it.


The White House did not respond to questions about why the climate report website was taken down, or whether the administration plans to create the next edition of the climate assessment as Congress mandates.

Congress requires the federal government to publish the National Climate Assessment every four years. The last edition was published in 2023, and underscored the degree to which climate change is expensive, deadly and preventable.

"If you are a human being in the United States, your life is already being impacted by climate change whether you know it or not," says Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist who was one of the authors of the report. "If we don't recognize that, it's simply because we haven't connected the dots. And the National Climate Assessment was one of the primary tools connecting those dots."

The next edition was supposed to be released in 2027, and about 400 volunteer authors had started working on it. That work stopped after all the federal staff who coordinate it were let go in April.

You can still access the National Climate Assessment on other websites

Although the original National Climate Assessment website is down, it's still possible to access the information.

An archived version of the most recent edition is available through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. All five editions of the National Climate Assessment that have been published over the years will also be available on NASA's website, according to NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens. NASA doesn't yet know when that website will be available to the public.

NOAA's archive site is not searchable the way the original website was. An archived version of the original, searchable website is available through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine tool here.

The interactive atlas portion of the National Climate Assessment, which allows users to zoom in on specific locations, is still available on a website hosted by the mapping software company Esri. The climate assessment used that company's map platform to publish the interactive atlas tool.

Comment: And how long do you think that the NOAA website will be allowed to show this?

ADD: Well, not very long at all. This, from The Guardian-
The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within Nasa to comply with the law, but gave no further details.

Searches for the assessments on Nasa websites did not turn them up. Nasa did not respond to requests for information. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries.

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  • edited July 1
    May I point out that @FD1000 regards concealing this vital information from the citizens of the United States as merely a "pendulum move to the center".

    Trump and his sycophant disciples are destroying the very heart of the United States, and people like FD1000 think that is just fine, as long as they make money.
  • Thank you, OJ. My understanding is that this is a cost saving consideration to reduce the electrical bill and eliminate maintenance contracts.
    I won't express my true feelings at this time, in this public forum.
  • Contrary to the view from FD and his rose colored glasses ,,, America is fucked and we won’t even know how bad for weeks. The pundits I follow say fight we must but I don’t see a path forward. Anyone have any hope to share?
  • edited July 1
    Sadly, this is not surprising.
    The Trump administration strives to suppress all information/data which contradicts their narratives.
    This is part of the standard playbook for fascist regimes.
  • edited July 1
    Because they fear science. they do not like or understand the empirical process. And it stands in the way of lies and manipulations. It also makes many people scared that there could be big changes occurring in a world that they want desperately to believe is stable and reliable. They want a false sense of security.

    See the IPCC report for climate change science.

    https://www.ipcc.ch/

    Over 14,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies that are irrefutable.

    Google climate change myths. NASA has a great page on that, until the Luddites have it taken down, anyhow. There is s site called Skeptical Science where some very smart people post about climate change and the various myths too.

    https://skepticalscience.com

    https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/

    They can't debate or argue with the science (14 THOUSAND peer-review studies), so they try to eliminate the data instead. Tip over the chess board. They are so sure that this is some liberal scam, they will never listen anyhow. They certainly have no science that can refute the truth here.

    There is a very funny irony involved. Elon Musk is rabid about his belief in Climate Change. And that it is an existential crisis for humanity. He did more than any other to put Trump where he is, and now is raging.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/musk-trump-tax-bill-deficit.html

    Trump is vindictively trying to harm Musk's businesses financially. Which is hysterical in its own right.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/tesla-shares-tumble-after-trump-says-doge-should-look-at-elon-musks-subsidies.html

    Hurricane season in Florida should get interesting. Trump's DOD is no longer sharing critical satellite weather information. Even though taxpayers are the one's funding it. Trump is cutting FEMA. Trump hates DeSantis (so does everyone else, but for different reasons). Deportations will hit hurricane reconstruction in Florida hard! MAGA supporters in Florida may be in for a rude awakening, as early as this coming fall. The place could quickly become uninsurable and uninhabitable.

    All flood insurance for hurricane regions is through the government. I wonder how long before Trump takes that away?
  • larryB said:

    Contrary to the view from FD and his rose colored glasses ,,, America is fucked and we won’t even know how bad for weeks. The pundits I follow say fight we must but I don’t see a path forward. Anyone have any hope to share?

    I am not in the camp that believes he can get away with stopping mid-terms. He may muse about it, but it will continue as scheduled. The "hope" comes from the incredible backlash that may wipe away both Congressional majorities, leaving Trump a lame duck. Then, after he harms even more of his MAGA supporters with ill-conceived EOs, the GOP brand becomes toxic for years to come.

    Two of his biggest assets (Musk and Rogan) only took about 3-4 months to realize how badly they erred and misjudged. They both have big megaphones. His rural supporters will witness crushing agriculture/ farming damage by mid-terms, as well.
  • edited July 1
    I pretty much agree and really hope that @DrVenture is right on this. Musk is financially very vulnerable to Trump's vindictive actions, and he is going to fight for every inch of renewable-energy related issues.
  • Thanks Doc V.
  • edited July 1
    Well, that didn't take very long:

                        Trump and Musk’s feud blows up again with threats of Doge and deportation

                                Reignited quarrel centers around Musk’s opposition to the president’s
                                                      signature tax bill as it moves through Congress
    Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s feud reignited this week with the former political allies trading sharp public threats of retribution. The blowup, centered around Musk’s opposition to Trump’s signature tax bill as it moves through Congress, ends a period of rapprochement between two of the world’s most powerful men.

    Musk posted escalating attacks against Trump’s sweeping spending bill on his social media platform X, calling the legislation “insane” and vowing to form a new political party if it passed late Monday. In response, Trump claimed he could “look into” deporting the South Africa-born billionaire, while also suggesting he could cut government subsidies for Musk’s companies or set the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) on its former leader.

    “Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible?” Trump asked reporters on Tuesday.

    Musk’s attempt to derail the tax bill was a major factor in his falling out with the president last month, and the Tesla CEO’s renewed offensive comes at a sensitive time as Trump seeks to shepherd the legislation through Congress. The fight could test Musk’s political influence over the Republican party as he seeks to peel away votes for the bill, as well as further deteriorate his once-close relationship with Trump.

    Musk has repeatedly criticized the legislation Trump calls his “big, beautiful bill” for its potential to nullify the cuts to the federal government he made through Doge and for the likelihood it will add trillions to the national debt, which he has warned will “bankrupt America” and imperil his dream of reaching Mars. Musk, a top Republican megadonor, intensified his campaign in recent days with threats that he would form his own “America Party” and target lawmakers in upcoming elections who voted for the bill in 2026 primary elections.

    “Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!” Musk posted. “They will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth”.

    Trump has rejected Musk’s criticisms of the bill, alleging that the Tesla CEO’s opposition is because the bill would end a tax credit for consumers purchasing electric vehicles.

    “Elon’s very upset that the EV mandate is gonna be terminated,” Trump said on Tuesday. “Not everybody wants an electric car. I don’t want an electric car.”

    When a reporter asked if Trump is considering deporting Musk, he responded that he didn’t know but would “take a look”. Musk replied to a video of the statement on X, saying “so tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now.”

    Trump’s remarks were a stark turnaround from only months ago when he hosted a showcase for Tesla on the White House lawn in front of media, during which he encouraged his supporters to buy Musk’s cars and sat in the driver’s seat of a red Model S sedan. In contrast, Trump threatened this week that he could destroy Musk’s businesses.

    “Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Monday. “No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE.”

    Musk’s companies, especially SpaceX, are closely intertwined with US government agencies and have received billions of dollars in contracts from them. The government has meanwhile come to rely on SpaceX for key parts of its space travel and satellite communications programs, and the company is being considered for a role in building a new multibillion dollar missile defense program. The symbiotic relationship between Musk and the government has made any political tensions sensitive for his businesses, and Tesla’s share price declined on Monday and Tuesday as the feud continued.

    The preceding is a current report in The Guardian.
  • larryB said:

    Contrary to the view from FD and his rose colored glasses ,,, America is fucked and we won’t even know how bad for weeks. The pundits I follow say fight we must but I don’t see a path forward. Anyone have any hope to share?

    "ALT National Park Service" has a huge following on most social media. 4.3M followers just on FB. There are a LOT of people who care. Think positive.
  • I think lots of us care in the best possible way… How to effectively fight back before the regime makes resistance impossible is the question. They are building a gulag in Florida. Won’t be the last. Even Nixon was an institutionalist in the end. Not so today. One guy who is literally feeling limitless and a party too scared to do what’s in the best interest of the country. Back when I was part of the anti war movement LBJ didn’t run for reelection. Unfortunately that got us Nixon but he left office in disgrace.
  • Good point @gman57
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