Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump | Climate crisis
At the beginning of this summer, access to Climate.gov, one of the most commonly used climate information on the Internet, was blocked by Trump administration and the production team was fired in this process.
The website has offered an accessible material on climatic science for years. Site Technically still online However, he was now deliberately buried by his political appointed team, who is currently the national ocean and the atmosphere administration.
Now, a team of climate communication experts, including many members of the old climate.gov team, is working to raise its content to a new organization with an extended task.
The new website of your efforts, climate.Not only does it offer public interpretations of climatic science, but also start directly to local governments, such as assisting the increasing risk of flood risk due to climate change.
Although the effort is now unemployed, many of his former colleagues are climate.
“Many federal employees are upset not to lose a job, but also a profession, L Lindsey said. “None of us were ready to quit Climate.gov and the mission.”
Within the first few weeks after finishing the Trump management, Lindsey’s new team received a continuous flow of support, including legal support, and a short -term grant that helped them develop a vision because they want to do in the next step.
“The most popular things about the climate were the things that taught people about climate, natural climate and climate change, L Lindsey said. “There is a need for content that helps people get the basic climate literacy independent of an agency.”
As the multi -year veterans of the federal bureaucracy, they are surprised by the possibilities that new efforts can offer from time to time.
“We were allowed to use Tiktok now, Lind said Lindsey said. “We have been allowed to have some fun. We have a group of conversations. We dive into things that are not part of our wheel.”
The Climate.us team is also in the soft curse process A mass gathering driving driving Lindsey hopes that they can turn from a big foundation into more permanent support. Lindsey also created an e-mail address to communicate with the team to provide the same support.
“Someone bought our domain name for us. And we have someone with a volunteer web hosting area for this stage. However, climate.
In the meantime, Lindsey and his team found themselves in the logistics of building the summer knee in depth, making a large snow -making organization from scratch.
Lindsey’s new team of Lindsey, who worked in Climate.gov before, but not to be named for the fear of ordeal, said, “We all had to leave 9-5 mentality and try to do things as quickly as possible.”
Lindsey said, uzan By continuing the legacy of the climate and trying to re -publish the most vital parts of the climate. “We hope that it will provide a critical audience to attract other partners who want to be a part of their effort.”
Considering why Lindsey has done this work right now and that it is an emotional summer. The effort has a catartic personal blood feud against a government that declares war against the brightness of journalism and federal science efforts.
Lindsey said, olmak Being optimistic and we are on the right path, and of course, we should be afraid that we cannot attract it and that we will not be able to pass it for six months, and we should all be looking for new jobs and we did not. ”
Lindsey’s team member said, “What happened is so overwhelming that it is easy to feel that you are weak to do something about it,” he said. “But sometimes you should only see and see things you can access. And this problem is in our transportation, so we only see some kind of part of us.”
Lindsey also told The Guardian to Climate.gov that all content is still ready If you know where to lookWhen he found out, he upset him.
Lindsey said, “This is the information already paid by taxpayers,” Lindsey said. “This administration is trying to hide and take it from us. This is the abuse of a government. This is a waste of resources. People must be angry. The government does not need to work.”
Orum I think it is important for this initiative to continue even beyond this mass funding stage, ”he said, he still contributes to another part -time project that wants to stay anonymous because they are still a employee of the federal government.
“Whether or not people are aware or not, climate change affects everyone regardless of the current political environment. Climate science is the only way to understand and adapt what is on our great beautiful planet.”
