{"id":382970,"date":"2025-06-12T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=382970"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:02:22","slug":"when-the-narrative-dies-climate-gov-and-the-quiet-collapse-of-climate-alarmism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=382970","title":{"rendered":"When the Narrative Dies: Climate.gov and the Quiet Collapse of Climate Alarmism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/11\/climate-website-shut-down-noaa<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It appears the United States has quietly taken a scalpel\u2014rather than a chainsaw\u2014to one of its central instruments of climate orthodoxy: Climate.gov. According to reporting from The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, the plug is being pulled on this site, which served as a flagship for NOAA\u2019s \u201cclimate communication, education, and engagement\u201d efforts. Its entire content production team has been sacked, and the site\u2019s future now hangs somewhere between irrelevance and digital zombification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s not beat around the wind turbine: this is cause for a healthy smirk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For over a decade, Climate.gov was marketed as a neutral purveyor of scientific truth, but in practice, it functioned more like a taxpayer-funded echo chamber for IPCC-aligned climate narratives. It presented \u201cconsensus science\u201d as gospel, projected model predictions as inevitable fate, and treated carbon dioxide\u2014a gas essential for life\u2014as a pollutant to be morally condemned. All in the name of \u201cpublic education,\u201d of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Well, education implies options. What this site provided was indoctrination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exposed nerve in The Guardian<\/em>\u2018s coverage is palpable. Staff describe the firings as a \u201cdeliberate, targeted attack\u201d on \u201cpolitically neutral\u201d science. According to former program manager Rebecca Lindsey\u2014who admits she received \u201ca stellar performance review, a bonus, a raise\u201d\u2014the team was dismissed with a form letter stating that their<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cknowledge, skills, and abilities are no longer of use to NOAA\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Translation: the new administration doesn\u2019t need more PowerPoint climatology to justify economy-wrecking policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, publishing graphs with y-axes scaled to induce panic is no longer a national priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pearl-clutching gets better. One staffer voiced concern that the administration could \u201cco-opt\u201d the Climate.gov domain and hand it to \u201ca content team from the Heartland Institute,\u201d fearing it might become a platform for gasp<\/em> alternative viewpoints. This is presented as a nightmare scenario. But why, exactly? If the public is indeed so swayed by reason and data, then an honest debate shouldn\u2019t threaten anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unless, of course, the foundation of your messaging is so fragile that even a modest breeze of skepticism might topple it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the more revealing quotes comes from a contractor who worries that Climate.gov could become a \u201cpropaganda website for this administration.\u201d That\u2019s rich. Because when it was churning out one-sided material about climate doom, it wasn\u2019t propaganda\u2014it was \u201ceducation.\u201d The self-awareness deficit here is staggering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate.gov boasted \u201chundreds of thousands of visits per month\u201d and supposedly played a key role in \u201cpushing back against misinformation.\u201d In truth, its content pushed a very specific kind of information: that which supported central planning, carbon taxation, regulatory expansion, and the replacement of affordable energy with intermittent, subsidized alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, Di Liberto, a former NOAA spokesperson, laments the fact that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cThey only fired a handful of people, and it just so happened to be the entire content team for climate.gov. I mean, that\u2019s a clear signal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not a glitch; that\u2019s a feature. When the alleged neutrality of a government website means never deviating from one political outlook, then yes, the entire content team should be replaced\u2014or eliminated entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kicker is that this doesn\u2019t even represent a full-scale rollback. It\u2019s more like a bureaucratic cold shoulder. Pre-written content will still be drip-fed to the site, like a zombie blog still twitching after its brain has been removed. Social media accounts are likely to go dark. Staff who once wielded the authority to label everything they disagreed with as \u201cdisinformation\u201d will now have to join the rest of us in the public square\u2014where claims must actually hold up under scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em> frames this as a national disservice, warning that \u201chalting factual climate information is a disservice to the public.\u201d But what it really laments is the loss of narrative control. The public still has access to raw data. NOAA isn\u2019t disappearing. The difference is that its most ideologically curated interface is no longer being force-fed into search engines and school curricula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s be honest: Climate.gov was never just a website. It was a flagship for technocratic messaging, a glittering storefront in the climate industrial complex. Its dismantling signals something refreshing: that Americans are tiring of being talked down to, taxed up the wazoo, and force-fed a diet of dire predictions wrapped in pseudo-objectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s about time we returned to actual skepticism, open inquiry, and policies that treat energy not as a vice, but a virtue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Score one for reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears the United States has quietly taken a scalpel\u2014rather than a chainsaw\u2014to one of its central instruments of climate orthodoxy: Climate.gov. According to reporting from The Guardian, the plug is being pulled on this site, which served as a flagship for NOAA\u2019s \u201cclimate communication, education, and engagement\u201d efforts. Its entire content production team has been sacked, and the site\u2019s future now hangs somewhere between irrelevance and digital zombification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":382981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819134,691835782,691835783,691833580,691833237,691835784,691818262],"class_list":{"0":"post-382970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-alarmism","9":"tag-climate-gov","10":"tag-consensus-science","11":"tag-model-predictions","12":"tag-noaa-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","13":"tag-propaganda-website","14":"tag-the-guardian","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24-2.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1BCW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":385911,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=385911","url_meta":{"origin":382970,"position":0},"title":"Raise a Glass to the Shuttering of Climate.gov","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/30\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"In its steady promotion of fiscal frugality, the Trump administration has sent the entire content production staff of Climate.gov packing as their NOAA contract expired on May 31\u2014effectively silencing the federal government\u2019s flagship climate propaganda platform overnight. Rebecca Lindsey, Tom Di Liberto and the rest of the once\u2013highly paid spin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"climate propaganda\"","block_context":{"text":"climate propaganda","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-propaganda"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_09.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_09.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_09.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_09.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":400660,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=400660","url_meta":{"origin":382970,"position":1},"title":"Fired Climate.gov Federal Employees Resurrect Website on their Own Dime","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/07\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"See, they didn\u2019t need federal funding after all.","rel":"","context":"In \"climate communication experts\"","block_context":{"text":"climate communication experts","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-communication-experts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMJyT9ttt2TxAAhND_zo4ixEwz_gJ0O5DAzksp89XBkZoTi7bgAooP4sIhUJiBvg8PTGmfh46nT-Le30WLS5TjSgo5Go5TugWL6wgmT53Oh8kl9_yPAXq9jK-0KzhyG7FnEs8Xrd5ARFm4AURL8BP55R0rT3Q.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMJyT9ttt2TxAAhND_zo4ixEwz_gJ0O5DAzksp89XBkZoTi7bgAooP4sIhUJiBvg8PTGmfh46nT-Le30WLS5TjSgo5Go5TugWL6wgmT53Oh8kl9_yPAXq9jK-0KzhyG7FnEs8Xrd5ARFm4AURL8BP55R0rT3Q.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMJyT9ttt2TxAAhND_zo4ixEwz_gJ0O5DAzksp89XBkZoTi7bgAooP4sIhUJiBvg8PTGmfh46nT-Le30WLS5TjSgo5Go5TugWL6wgmT53Oh8kl9_yPAXq9jK-0KzhyG7FnEs8Xrd5ARFm4AURL8BP55R0rT3Q.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMJyT9ttt2TxAAhND_zo4ixEwz_gJ0O5DAzksp89XBkZoTi7bgAooP4sIhUJiBvg8PTGmfh46nT-Le30WLS5TjSgo5Go5TugWL6wgmT53Oh8kl9_yPAXq9jK-0KzhyG7FnEs8Xrd5ARFm4AURL8BP55R0rT3Q.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMJyT9ttt2TxAAhND_zo4ixEwz_gJ0O5DAzksp89XBkZoTi7bgAooP4sIhUJiBvg8PTGmfh46nT-Le30WLS5TjSgo5Go5TugWL6wgmT53Oh8kl9_yPAXq9jK-0KzhyG7FnEs8Xrd5ARFm4AURL8BP55R0rT3Q.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":407339,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407339","url_meta":{"origin":382970,"position":2},"title":"Zeroing Out Taxpayer Funded Climate Propaganda","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Biology teachers should be teaching biology. Social studies teachers should be teaching anything other than actual science.","rel":"","context":"In \"climate propaganda\"","block_context":{"text":"climate propaganda","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-propaganda"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQM903n2lWo_SvxVrt_R4_hltafX1C3SfRoBcSDBOTa3IgEYt9EKlIbKSqhu7IJ4DY0wmsC7zcuQtqjKezsPZangvhJkT4af_1OsclCq0zNj7xCzgT5nAxs7W58rDjhYzYFjC4x1DIQpNfFJF4JYn2r_VcLmLQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQM903n2lWo_SvxVrt_R4_hltafX1C3SfRoBcSDBOTa3IgEYt9EKlIbKSqhu7IJ4DY0wmsC7zcuQtqjKezsPZangvhJkT4af_1OsclCq0zNj7xCzgT5nAxs7W58rDjhYzYFjC4x1DIQpNfFJF4JYn2r_VcLmLQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQM903n2lWo_SvxVrt_R4_hltafX1C3SfRoBcSDBOTa3IgEYt9EKlIbKSqhu7IJ4DY0wmsC7zcuQtqjKezsPZangvhJkT4af_1OsclCq0zNj7xCzgT5nAxs7W58rDjhYzYFjC4x1DIQpNfFJF4JYn2r_VcLmLQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQM903n2lWo_SvxVrt_R4_hltafX1C3SfRoBcSDBOTa3IgEYt9EKlIbKSqhu7IJ4DY0wmsC7zcuQtqjKezsPZangvhJkT4af_1OsclCq0zNj7xCzgT5nAxs7W58rDjhYzYFjC4x1DIQpNfFJF4JYn2r_VcLmLQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQM903n2lWo_SvxVrt_R4_hltafX1C3SfRoBcSDBOTa3IgEYt9EKlIbKSqhu7IJ4DY0wmsC7zcuQtqjKezsPZangvhJkT4af_1OsclCq0zNj7xCzgT5nAxs7W58rDjhYzYFjC4x1DIQpNfFJF4JYn2r_VcLmLQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":203974,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=203974","url_meta":{"origin":382970,"position":3},"title":"June 2022 ENSO update: how does your garden grow?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/12\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"BY EMILY BECKER I\u2019m definitely starting to sound like a broken record here! La Ni\u00f1a is favored to continue through the summer and into the winter. That said, chances of La Ni\u00f1a through summer have a fairly small edge over chances of a transition to neutral\u201452% for La Ni\u00f1a vs.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0Ocean-Monthly-Difference-from-average-Sea-Surface-Temperature-Pacific-2022-05-00-large.png?fit=1000%2C666&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0Ocean-Monthly-Difference-from-average-Sea-Surface-Temperature-Pacific-2022-05-00-large.png?fit=1000%2C666&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0Ocean-Monthly-Difference-from-average-Sea-Surface-Temperature-Pacific-2022-05-00-large.png?fit=1000%2C666&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0Ocean-Monthly-Difference-from-average-Sea-Surface-Temperature-Pacific-2022-05-00-large.png?fit=1000%2C666&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":284140,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284140","url_meta":{"origin":382970,"position":4},"title":"NYT Claims Record September Temperature Indicates Accelerated Climate Change \u2013 It Doesn\u2019t","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/20\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Just another scare story of climate scientist Zeke Hausfather because a single record warm month of data is not an indication of \u201cevidence that global warming has accelerated.\u201d The post appeared first on ClimateREALISM A guest opinion article in\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0by Zeke Hausfather, Ph.D, titled \u201cI Study Climate Change.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"CO2\"","block_context":{"text":"CO2","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=co2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":261124,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=261124","url_meta":{"origin":382970,"position":5},"title":"Countering NOAA\u2019s one-sided reporting on ocean warming","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/07\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Look at this, an astounding tweet from NOAA with no support for people that wish to challenge it to look at, or even reference the supporting evidence.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/00noaa_aurora_logo.jpg?fit=1200%2C660&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/00noaa_aurora_logo.jpg?fit=1200%2C660&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/00noaa_aurora_logo.jpg?fit=1200%2C660&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/00noaa_aurora_logo.jpg?fit=1200%2C660&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/00noaa_aurora_logo.jpg?fit=1200%2C660&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382970"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382982,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382970\/revisions\/382982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}