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Comment: And how long do you think that the NOAA website will be allowed to show this?
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An archived version of the most recent edition is available through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.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.
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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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.
I won't express my true feelings at this time, in this public forum.
The Trump administration strives to suppress all information/data which contradicts their narratives.
This is part of the standard playbook for fascist regimes.
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?
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.
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
The preceding is a current report in The Guardian.
on administrative leave after they signed a letter critical of Trump's policies.
"The letter was made public earlier this week and titled as a 'Declaration of Dissent.'
'It accused the federal government of engaging in 'harmful deregulation,'
'ignoring scientific consensus to benefit polluters' and 'promoting a culture of fear' within the agency."
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/us-environmental-agency-puts-139-employees-leave-after-they-criticized-trumps-2025-07-04/