Circumventing The Trump Administration’s Data Suppression: Billion $ Weather/Climate Disasters Efforts

Menzie Chinn
Menzie Chinn
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin •

Federal climate- and disaster-data websites are being quietly dismantled, prompting researchers and archival groups to scramble to rescue the records before they vanish.

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As noted by CNN, the Trump administration’s deactivation of the website tracking climatic-related disasters has been partially alleviated by Climate Central‘s initiative.
 

Note: In 2025$ (deflated by CPI). Source: ClimateCentral.org
 

Note that 2025 is registering far ahead of previous years so far.

Gotta wonder what other data the Administration is happy to “deep six”.

See here for last post on this subject, before the Administration terminated the NOAA website.

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