Raise a Glass to the Shuttering of Climate.gov
12 hours ago Charles Rotter
Charles Rotter
In its steady promotion of fiscal frugality, the Trump administration has sent the entire content production staff of Climate.gov packing as their NOAA contract expired on May 31—effectively silencing the federal government’s flagship climate propaganda platform overnight. Rebecca Lindsey, Tom Di Liberto and the rest of the once–highly paid spin doctors who churned out daily “urgent” updates on melting ice sheets and CO₂ curves received form letters informing them that their “knowledge, skills, and abilities are no longer of use to NOAA,” a fitting epitaph for a site built on relentless hype.
For years, millions of casual web surfers landed on Climate.gov only to be lectured by animated carbon-cycle maps, sliding-scale temperature-anomaly widgets and color-coded doom gauges predicting imminent coastal calamity. All of that eye-candy is now frozen in digital amber—archived but never to be updated—so that future historians can gawp at government-sponsored hysteria in its unedited glory. No more breathless countdowns to climate Armageddon, no more click-bait pop-ups proclaiming every thunderstorm as “proof” of runaway warming. The propagandists have packed up their graph-generating scripts and left, leaving behind only static pages that serve as curious relics of alarmist marketing.
Critics have wailed about “critical climate data” being scrubbed, but their caterwauling stems from a basic misunderstanding: none of the raw measurements ever disappeared. The station records, satellite feeds, radar logs, ocean-buoy readings and even paleoclimate ice-core datasets remain untouched in the National Centers for Environmental Information archive, which manages over 60 petabytes of environmental data and continues to serve it up via Climate Data Online APIs, FTP servers and the NCEI Map Viewer. In other words, the data weren’t scrubbed—they were never meant to be buried; only the politically curated presentation was.
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