If you try to visit climate.gov today, you are redirected to a page on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website. The original site, built over decades using federal research and public funding, is effectively gone, according to Ars Technica.
The NOAA page that now greets visitors explains the redirect by citing Executive Order 14303, titled Restoring Gold Standard Science, along with a June 23, 2025 memorandum from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The message states that future research products previously housed under Climate.gov will be available at NOAA.gov/climate and its affiliate websites.
Climate.gov had served as a public-facing hub for a large range of resources, from comprehensive climate analyses and massive datasets to basic explainers written to inform general audiences. Researchers inside the federal government and programs it funded spent years building and maintaining the site.
The team responsible for the redirect implied the change was connected to a determination that climate research had failed to meet what the administration calls gold standard science standards. The executive order and the accompanying memorandum provide the formal justification listed on the redirect page.
A nonprofit has since relaunched the site, restoring access to content that had been removed from the federal web. The effort preserves materials that were at risk of becoming inaccessible following the government's decision to shut down the original platform.
The situation reflects a broader pattern in which federal science websites and databases built over multiple administrations have been taken offline or altered during the current administration. Climate.gov was among the more prominent of those sites, given its role as an entry point for public access to government climate information.
The NOAA redirect page remains in place. The nonprofit version operates separately.
