NOAA removed 2024 Climate Literacy Guide from its website

Union of Concerned Scientist: “Yet another resource that belongs to us, the US public, has disappeared down the Trump administration’s memory hole. I just learned from the valiant Environmental Data and Government Initiative that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has removed the 2024 Climate Literacy Guide from https://www.climate.gov (though a data savior has preserved it here). Now, no one can access a fundamental federal resource that helps the public understand climate change updated and released by US Global Change Research Program in 2024.

Who needs the Climate Literacy Guide? Trump’s Signal crew, that’s who. Anyone who wishes to understand what’s happening to our world—why we keep stacking hottest year on hottest year, why wildfires are so intense, why some hurricanes strengthen so rapidly—can learn from the Climate Literacy Guide. But some key national security officials could use a new Signal chat, this time discussing the literacy guide to better understand essential principles of climate change science, impacts, and solutions. Bonus: None of this information is classified!

And if an accidental invitation is available, I’d love to join officials who notably do use Signal: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has just ordered the “elimination of climate defense planning,” scrapping years of Pentagon policy that identified climate as a major and mounting threat to national security.

• Vice President JD Vance, who does not acknowledge human-caused climate change.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who again can’t quite figure out where he’s supposed to be in the (climate) conversation.
• Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard, who apparently okayed the omission of climate change from the US intelligence community’s annual threat assessment report for the first time in 11 years.
• Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, who during the previous Trump administration wasn’t “interested in climate change” even after an internal report showed it was a driver of migration to the US (along with driving enormous human suffering). At the moment, Miller “is more powerful [on immigration] than ever…”