Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources

ChrisArchitect

Blog post from a few weeks ago: https://www.climate.us/news-features/feed/climateus-launches... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689182 )

cheschire

> The whole thing relies on donations to keep it afloat, which is really what tax dollars are for. Hmm. I don’t believe that’s accurate.

nickff

This may be a controversial view, but I don't think we should trust the actor in charge of regulating and limiting emissions with its own supervision. The Federal Government has a plethora of agencies which regulate pollution and energy usage; how can we trust either its legislative or executive branch to ensure that their creations are effective or efficient? To that end, I hope the Trump administration's actions cause independent data collection and analysis by activists and independent scientists.

whatever1

With the AI rush, it all makes sense why suddenly all Silicon Valley became pro Trump and anti climate overnight.

xnx

They may have, unfortunately, proved DOGE's point. The new climate.gov probably costs a fraction of the old one.

imoverclocked

I'm glad someone managed to save the data that we all payed for. My question is, how will this site stay relevant? The collection/analysis/monitoring of the current situation is as important as historic data. Turning current data into historical data takes significant resources.

Self-Perfection

What if government websites were distributed & archived as a default, from the beginning? Think IPFS as a first target for publication, "normal web" only as a mirror. Is it feasible? Should we push for this default? First obvious objection is that lots of government services need backend and dynamic content, but let's say this requirement only goes for static content.

Magicrafter13

Partisan politics aside, frankly, anything data the government publishes like this should be public domain by virtue of it being published by the government . How can the government "for the people by the people" claim propriety/intellectual-property over anything?

aussieguy1234

A similar thing happened back in Australia years back. We had the Climate Commission, which did alot of great work. It was a government department and fully funded by the government. Then a conservative, climate denying government came to power and shut it down. Literally within 48 hours, they obtained alternative funding from private sources, then rebirthed the organization as the independent Climate Council. Many of the fired workers were re hired and the new organization does similar work to the previous one. It's still in operation today. https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/