NOAA’s Forecast Blackout: Trump Regime to Shut Down Public Weather and Climate Data

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🔴 UPDATE: April 4, 2025
Trump Regime to Kill NOAA Research Websites, Gutting Public Access to Climate and Weather Data

Starting Saturday morning, much of the U.S. government’s public-facing weather and climate research will vanish from the internet—deliberately. The Trump regime is terminating a key web services contract for NOAA’s research division, effectively deleting vast troves of taxpayer-funded data, research, and forecasting tools. The victims: emergency managers, climate scientists, local governments, and anyone who relies on accurate weather forecasts.

This isn’t cost-cutting. It’s a calculated act of sabotage.

Key Developments:

• Public-Facing NOAA Research Sites Set to Disappear – Due to the early cancellation of a cloud services contract, most websites tied to NOAA Research—including the National Severe Storms Laboratory and Earth Prediction Innovation Center—will go dark as early as Saturday.
  Source: Bloomberg

• IT Budget Slashed by 50% Across Department of Commerce – NOAA is being forced to cut its IT budget in half, under orders from the Commerce Department. This is directly triggering cloud contract cancellations and internet outages that could ripple across weather data systems.
  Source: Axios

• Threat to Life-Saving Forecasting Tools – Programs like the Hazardous Weather Testbed, which help power National Weather Service severe weather alerts, are at risk of disruption. Forecast reliability may be compromised.
  Source: Axios

• Climate and Ocean Data at Risk – Scientists and nonprofits have begun frantically archiving documents, presentations, and data before they vanish. Entire public libraries of ocean and climate research could be lost.
  Source: Bloomberg

• Translation Services for Spanish Forecasts Already Cut – Another contract lapse this week has already ended NOAA’s ability to auto-translate weather warnings into Spanish, endangering non-English-speaking communities.
  Source: Axios

• N-Wave Internet Backbone at Risk – NOAA’s internal network system, which connects its supercomputers and data centers, could soon face “significant service disruptions” due to two expiring emergency support extensions.
  Source: Bloomberg

• More Cuts Incoming – NOAA is already reeling from the loss of 800 staffers in February and a wave of early retirements. Additional service outages are expected as other contracts near expiration and must be re-approved by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
  Source: Axios

The Real Story: Who Wins and Who Pays the Price?
This isn’t just another bureaucratic hiccup—it’s part of a deliberate war on science, and the casualties are all around us.

Every single byte of lost data was paid for by the public. Every outage undermines disaster preparedness, climate research, and community safety. From hurricane alerts to severe storm warnings, the systems we rely on are being dismantled in real time—because the regime wants chaos, not competence.

Who wins? The right-wing oligarchs who’ve long seen science as a threat to profit. Who pays? Everyone else.

🔍 Why This Matters:
Once again, the Department of Government Extinction is doing exactly what it was built to do: choke off public knowledge, cripple critical infrastructure, and bury the truth beneath a manufactured fog of dysfunction.

And make no mistake—this isn’t about saving money. It’s about erasing science that contradicts Trump’s narrative.

🚨 The Bottom Line:
The Trump regime is pulling the plug on weather and climate science—literally. It’s not an accident. It’s not incompetence. It’s an attack.

From gutted research labs to disappearing forecasts, this is what authoritarianism looks like in practice: the silencing of science, the elevation of ignorance, and the endangerment of American lives for political gain.

📌 Sources:

• Bloomberg: US Weather Agency Websites Set to Vanish With Contract Cuts

• Axios: Canceled contract means NOAA research websites slated to go dark

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