Former NOAA scientists fired by the Trump administration in 2025 rebuilt Climate.gov as an independent nonprofit called Climate.us and relaunched it in June 2026 to preserve public access to climate data outside government control. The move restores a federal resource that was shut down when the administration took office, maintaining continuity of climate research archiving that would otherwise have been lost. What makes this significant: it shows how institutional knowledge and critical data infrastructure can survive political disruption when scientists organize independently — but it also highlights that the original government site had to close for this workaround to become necessary.