By Stuart Braun, DW.  Excerpt: US President Donald Trump is an avowed  climate science skeptic  who during his second term ...gutted agencies that produce  climate information  used by millions of Americans. In February, only weeks after taking office, around 800 people were dismissed from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which  monitors  ocean and climate conditions and issues weather forecasts and warnings via its National Weather Service. The firings also impacted the agency's climate.gov website, the premier platform for  climate information  in the US that informs readers about extreme weather,  sea level  and temperature rise, and much else. ...Trump administration-appointed officials at NOAA not only terminated climate.gov staff, they redirected the homepage to a site controlled by political appointees, noted Rebecca Lindsey, the former manager of climate.gov who was also sacked in February. ...But ...

By Warren Cornwall , Science.  Excerpt: U.S. scientists, state policymakers, farmers, and others who depend on up-to-date climate data on Thursday confronted an information blackout from federal regional climate centers across much of the country. ...A decision about funding for the current year, which is the final year in the 5-year agreements, is currently “somewhere in NOAA,” says John Nielsen-Gammon, a climatologist at Texas A&M University and director of the Southern Regional Climate Center. If approved, “then we can spin back up relatively quickly. Of course, there’s no guarantee they will approve things.” ...The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has recommended ending funding for the regional climate centers in the  budget request for the 2026 fiscal year  that the administration is expected to send to Congress in coming weeks....  Full article at https://www.science.org/content/article/us-climate-data-websites-go-dark .  See also Tru...

By Kimberly M. S. Cartier , Eos/AGU.  Excerpt: NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, products, and catalogs related to earthquakes and marine, coastal, and estuary science.  According to the list , these data sources will be “decommissioned and will no longer be available” by early- to mid-May. Though NOAA regularly evaluates its data products to ensure they are still relevant, data sources are usually merged with or replaced by other products rather than outright removed. The agency did this just 7 times in 2024 and 6 times in 2023. ...The announcement of the removals comes days after environmental and science groups  sued the Trump administration  for the removal of climate and  environmental justice  websites and  data ....  Full article at https://eos.org/research-and-developments/noaa-datasets-will-soon-disappear . 

https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/ Source:   By American NOAA, Meteorological Society (AMS). Excerpt: The report, compiled by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, is based on contributions from scientists from around the world. It provides a detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events, and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice, and in space....

http://www.noaa.gov/news/2016-was-2nd-warmest-year-on-record-for-us Source:   NOAA news release For Investigation:   10.3 Excerpt: 15 weather and climate disasters caused 138 deaths, $46B in damages. ...depending on where you live, 2016 was either parched, soggy — or both. ...The average U.S. temperature in 2016 was 54.9 degrees F (2.9 degrees F above average), which ranked as the second warmest year in 122 years of record-keeping. This is the 20th consecutive year the annual average temperature exceeded the average. Every state in the contiguous U.S. and Alaska experienced above-average annual temperatures, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. ...This is the second highest number of disasters experienced in one year, with double the record number of inland flooding events for one year. ...1 drought (affected multiple areas); 1 wildfire (affected multiple areas); 4 inland floods; 8 severe storms; and 1 hurricane (Matthew).......

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21852/attribution-of-extreme-weather-events-in-the-context-of-climate-change Source:   Authors:  Committee on Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Attribution; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. For Investigation:   10.3 Excerpt: As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate models simulate such changes in extreme events, and some of the reasons for the changes are well understood. Warming increases the likelihood of extremely hot days and nights, favors increased atmospheric moisture that may result in more frequent heavy rainfall and snowfall, and leads to evaporation that can exacerbate droughts....   See also U. S. News article " National scientific panel said science has progressed enough they we can see global warming's fin...

https://www.climate.gov/enso Source:   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) For Investigation:  6.3, 9.2, 9.3

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-analyses-reveal-record-shattering-global-warm-temperatures-in-2015 Source:   NASA Release 16-008. For Investigation:   Excerpt: Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). ...Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with 15 of the 16 warmest years on record occurring since 2001. Last year was the first time the global average temperatures were 1 degree Celsius or more above the 1880-1899 average. ...Weather dynamics often affect regional temperatures, so not every region on Earth experienced record average temperatures last year. For example, NASA and NOAA found that the 2015 annual mean temperature for the contiguous 48 United States was the second warmest on record....