The Climate.gov website used to be a resource for climate education and communication with its deep expanse of climate data. Then last year, the U.S. government eliminated the staff and indicated the site would no longer publish new content.
Now a year later, former employees who worked on the site have recreated the valuable resource at Climate.us.
Rebecca Lindsey who leads the project team for the new website, and also a former program director on Climate.gov believes that “information is too important” to be lost and the site “will be focusing on the science and explaining science and showing people what the data show.”
Climate.us showcases the NOAA climate data and is currently not managed by government which Lindsey sees as a benefit since she notes, "[t]he fact that they got rid of it so easily is proof that we shouldn't make it vulnerable again.”