The Trump administration shut down climate.gov, redirecting it to NOAA.gov under Executive Order 14303, citing 'gold standard science' as justification for removing decades of federally funded climate research, datasets, and public explainers.
Former climate.gov administrators and outside volunteers recovered the content, which federal law prohibits the government from copyrighting. They rebuilt it at climate.us, and on Tuesday announced the full restoration of everything lost in the shutdown.
The full article is worth reading for what it reveals about the specific legal mechanisms used to justify the removal, and how the preservation effort was organized before the data disappeared.
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