The Engaged Ecology Initiative fully supports the work of Climate.us and the scientists, communicators, and public servants who are working to preserve public access to accurate climate information.
Climate.us is the nonprofit successor to Climate.gov, the federal climate information website whose staff and operations were shuttered under the Trump administration. At a time when essential climate resources were being deleted, distorted, or made harder for the public to find, the Climate.us team stepped forward to protect and restore access to key materials, including the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
This work matters because climate information is not a partisan luxury. It is public knowledge needed by families, teachers, farmers, city planners, emergency responders, health officials, business owners, and local communities. Accurate climate data helps people understand risks, prepare for extreme weather, protect water and food systems, and make informed decisions about the places they love.
Engaged ecology begins with the recognition that human life is inseparable from the larger living systems that sustain us. But recognition alone is not enough. We need trustworthy information. We need public science. We need clear explanations that ordinary citizens can use in conversation, education, policy, and practical action.
When climate information is suppressed or politicized, the damage is not merely scientific. It is ethical. Communities lose the ability to deliberate honestly about their future. Vulnerable people are placed at greater risk. Public trust is weakened. And the shared factual basis needed for democratic decision-making is eroded.
Climate.us represents a deeply important act of civic responsibility. It keeps publicly funded climate knowledge available to the public. It protects scientific continuity when political institutions fail. It helps restore the connection between knowledge and action.
Our Support for Climate.us
The Engaged Ecology Initiative stands in full support of Climate.us and its mission to keep reliable climate knowledge available to the public. We regard this work as both scientifically necessary and ethically urgent.
Climate.us is not simply preserving a website. It is defending the public’s right to know. By restoring access to climate data, educational resources, and major public reports such as the Fifth National Climate Assessment, Climate.us helps ensure that citizens, educators, local governments, journalists, community leaders, and advocacy groups can continue to rely on evidence rather than rumor, ideology, or denial.
We especially support Climate.us because its work aligns directly with the purpose of engaged ecology: helping people understand their lives as part of larger ecological systems and encouraging informed, responsible action within those systems. Communities cannot respond wisely to drought, heat, flooding, wildfire, biodiversity loss, public health risks, or water insecurity if the information they need is hidden, weakened, or politicized.
Accurate climate information is a matter of public care. It helps communities prepare for danger, protect vulnerable neighbors, make better policy, and speak honestly about the future. When that information is removed from public view, the result is not neutrality. The result is confusion, delay, and avoidable harm.
For that reason, we encourage our readers to visit and share these Climate.us resources:
- Climate.us homepage
- About Climate.us
- Fifth National Climate Assessment
- Regions section of the Fifth National Climate Assessment
We also encourage educators, discussion leaders, civic groups, faith communities, neighborhood associations, and local officials to use Climate.us as a trusted public resource. Climate literacy is not only for scientists. It is for every community that must make decisions about land, water, food, health, housing, transportation, energy, and mutual care.
The Engaged Ecology Initiative is grateful to the scientists and communicators who refused to let essential public knowledge disappear. Their work reminds us that defending truth is part of defending the living world.
Climate.us’s own site identifies itself as the nonprofit successor to Climate.gov and says it is preserving access to resources including the Fifth National Climate Assessment; recent reporting also describes it as launched by former NOAA staff to restore much of the former Climate.gov content and function. (climate.us)
In a time of ecological crisis, truth is not optional. Accurate information is a form of public care.