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By David Middleton

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• Climate

Science teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish

As government websites go dark, some nonprofits are trying to fill the void

• 3 Oct 2025
• 11:05 AM ET
• By Gaea Cabico

When news broke that climate.gov was about to go dark in June, Jeffrey Grant scrambled to download as many graphs and data tables from the website as he could. The high school biology teacher had relied heavily on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website to teach students about climate change…

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The cuts go beyond climate.gov to sites explicitly designed for educators, such as the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)…

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Breck Foster, a teacher at Lake Oswego High School in Oregon who weaves climate change into her social studies classes…

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Biology teachers should be teaching biology. Social studies teachers should be teaching anything other than actual science.

Some nonprofit organizations have been scrambling to fill the void. Margaret Wang-Aghania, executive director and co-founder of SubjectToClimate…

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Former NOAA employees hope to mitigate the loss of climate.gov. “We intend to restore all that content … outside the federal domain, where it is safe from further political interference,” says Rebecca Lindsey, former program manager of climate.gov…

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If there are “nonprofit organizations” and “former NOAA employees” willing to fund climate propaganda, why were taxpayers footing the bill in the first place?

More good news for taxpayers…

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Renowned U.S. climate center trims staff ahead of expected budget cuts

NSF-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research fears worse in coming months

• 2 Oct 2025
• 4:05 PM ET
• By Jeffrey Mervis

Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the world’s leading climate research centers, this week laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions.

The job actions, which have not been announced publicly, coincide with the start of a partial U.S. government shutdown. NCAR, which is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has so far been able to maintain normal operations and avoid furloughs of its 830 employees. But NCAR officials fear what could happen next: a $50 million cut to the center’s current $123 million budget.

President Donald Trump proposed the 40% reduction in his 2026 budget request to Congress…

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In addition to laying off workers in the center’s administrative and support units, the belt-tightening will result in a loss of employee benefits and reduced services—such as shorter cafeteria hours and fewer shuttle buses…

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It will take a lot more than a 40% budget cut to undo this damage:

Defunding climate propaganda should be a no-brainer because you literally “can’t get there from here” …