Last week, I noted that many people were beginning to notice the hyperbolic reporting about summer high temperatures that has become a very predictable part of the media’s climate madness.
The government’s “Climate.gov” has been one of the biggest sources of misinformation and eco-propaganda. Now the site is being relegated to a remote corner of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s website.
This move is in direct response to recent executive orders by President Donald Trump. It aims to streamline the delivery of climate information, making it more accessible and better aligning it with real science that has verifiable and reproducible results. The move occurred after most of the Climate.gov staff were fired earlier this year.
Climate.gov, the gateway website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Climate Program Office, will imminently no longer publish new content, according to multiple former staff responsible for the site’s content whose contracts were recently terminated.“The entire content production staff at climate.gov (including me) were let go from our government contract on 31 May,” said a former government contractor who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “We were told that our positions within the contract were being eliminated.”Rebecca Lindsey, the website’s former program manager, who was fired in February as part of the government’s purge of probationary employees, described a months-long situation within NOAA where political appointees and career staff argued over the fate of the website.
The new page, noaa.gov/climate, offers the following introduction:
UPDATED: June 24, 2025. In compliance with Executive Order 14303 (“Restoring Gold Standard Science”), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s June 23, 2025 Memorandum (“Agency Guidance for Implementing Gold Standard Science in the 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 have been redirected to NOAA.gov. Future research products previously housed under Climate.gov will be available at NOAA.gov/climate and its affiliate websites.
Charles Rotter of Watts Up With That climate blog highlights how this shift is a direct hit to the climate crisis propagandists who have been directing news content and policy direction.
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.
Clearly, the Trump administration hopes that the new emphasis on science and reason will help drive policies that are actually beneficial to the country. Going forward, it is intended that NOAA will focus on presenting information related to the importance of both natural climate variability and long-term trends, rather than attributing every fluctuation to human causes without robust evidence.
A good example of this approach, Accounting for Natural Variability in Our Changing Climate. The discussion covers two of the more famous climate phenomena that the media have been using for years to gin up worry about global warming: El Niño and La Niña.
Many scientific, engineering, and economic activities rely on conventional “climate normals”—30-year averages—as a benchmark of climate conditions across the United States. To enhance the usefulness of these averages, a new set of ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation) Climate Normals has been developed for the contiguous United States by NOAA NCEI. These primarily take into account the influence of El Niño, La Niña, and climate change impacts.El Niño and La Niña events are part of the ENSO cycle, which affects weather and climate conditions worldwide. Globally, El Niño leads to a warming effect, while La Niña contributes to cooler conditions. However, over the continental United States, El Niño and La Niña events are each associated with areas that are colder-than-normal or warmer-than-normal, as well as areas that are drier-than-normal or wetter-than-normal. The new averages also consider an optimal climate normal (OCN) to account for climate change impacts and align the basis of the normals with the most recent climate conditions.
All of this is very good news for those of us who love both real science and our nation.
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