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The Trump administration has shut down innumerable climate programs, including public-facing sources of information. All is not lost, though, partly because of significant efforts to retrieve that information and partly because other nonprofit sources of user-friendly data have continued without interference.
Here are some of the best places to find understandable dashboards, maps, and analysis for what can seem like overly complicated information.
Climate.us: One of the most important government sites shut down by Trump was climate.gov — a NASA-run collection of information written for the general public, not just experts. Fortunately, a few dedicated individuals have come to the rescue with this substitute site. In her good overview of this project at Grist, Kate Yoder writes that the new site “preserves climate dashboards, maps, blogs, and explanatory articles of the earlier site, and its goal is to ‘build an enduring, independent, and scientifically rigorous platform that the world can rely on for climate communication, education, and engagement’.” Yoder’s title suggests the larger context she also addresses: “The plan to make climate science harder to erase.” For another context, that of gender, see Jenae Barnes’s piece in The 19th, “Trump dismantled a federal climate website. These women rebuilt it.”
