Noaa Redirects Climate.gov To Its Homepage

Click connected climate.gov and you’ll find yourself redirected. That’s because nan tract has been officially unopen down.

As of June 24, nan National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) redirects climate.gov to nan organization’s homepage, noaa.gov.

“In compliance pinch Executive Order 14303 (“Restoring Gold Standard Science”), nan White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s June 23, 2025 Memorandum (“Agency Guidance for Implementing Gold Standard Science successful nan Conduct & Management of Scientific Activities”), 15 USC § 2904 (“National Climate Program”), 15 USC § 2934 (“National Global Change Research Plan”), and 33 USC § 893a (“NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Science Education Programs”), you person been redirected to NOAA.gov,” nan website banner reads. “Future investigation products antecedently housed nether Climate.gov will beryllium disposable astatine NOAA.gov/climate and its connection websites.”

The Guardian spoke pinch a erstwhile authorities contractor, who remained anonymous for fearfulness of retaliation, astir nan changes. They said “the full contented accumulation unit astatine climate.gov (including me) were fto spell from our authorities statement connected 31 May.”

The erstwhile programme head of nan website, Rebecca Lindsey, told The Guardian nan tract was supported by NOAA scientists and received hundreds of thousands of visits monthly. Lindsey shared nan tract was portion of NOAA’s subject helping alternatively than its nationalist affairs. As a result, it was affected by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts.

Lindsey said she was fired successful February arsenic portion of those cuts.

“We operated precisely really you would want an independent, non-partisan communications group to operate,” Lindsey told The Guardian. “It does look to beryllium portion of this benignant of slow and quiet measurement of trying to support subject agencies from providing accusation to nan American nationalist astir climate.”

In early June, a bipartisan conjugation introduced a measure aimed astatine hiring wrong different branch of NOAA, nan National Weather Service.  The measure grants nan powerfulness to straight prosecute meteorologists, wide beingness scientists, hydrologists, machine specialists and physics technicians.

“The National Weather Service has agelong provided captious upwind information and forecasts utilized by nan media and nationalist crossed nan United States. Granting them nonstop hiring authority will guarantee that previous and future workforce shortages tin beryllium addressed quickly, helping to minimize disruptions,” nan bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., said successful a statement. “Thank you to my colleagues connected some sides of nan aisle for their support of this authorities and I look guardant to moving together to guarantee that nan agency continues to present nan forecasts Americans trust connected each day.”

Straight Arrow News reached retired to NOAA for comment.