gml.noaa is back up and the CO2 and other data there, for now. I am so relieved, I feel sick.
After the Norfolk Southern East Palestine, Ohio, derailment and subsequent super stupid intentional blowing up of the most toxic cars, I went to NOAA to see the contaminant plume, and then warned friends living under it.
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
www.gml.noaa.gov/
GML conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social:
Keep pushing back. Hard.
He blinked on tariffs.
His California water stunt failed and has been ridiculed.
He was forced to roll back cutting grants and govt payments.
NSF support is resuming.
CDC webpages are being restored.
Street protests are starting.
Lawsuits are being filed.
Fight back.
@rahmstorf:
This is how fascism operates. In the 1930s the Nazi regime enforced strict control over academic institutions, censoring research and silencing dissenting voices. Many left Germany: Einstein, Born, Hahn, Meitner, Schrödinger, Szilard etc. etc.
Today, US scientists are looking at moving abroad.
Unite Behind The Science@ScienceUnite:
Then they came for the scientists
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social:
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social:
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO2 record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it’s just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social:
Who’s worried about hurricane forecasting when there is an unelected President Musk running NOAA into the ground?
Surely, none of the millions of Republicans in Florida.
steannh.bsky.social @steannh.bsky.social:’
Those motherfucking bastards! This is insanity.
Just wait until the Nazis white supremacist Zionists start exterminating those they don’t like globally, including in Canada, they way they have been for decades in Iraq, Palestine, etc.. and want to steal from.
Erin Clune @drmisserin.bsky.social:
MAGA’s Nazi Christian state doesn’t need weather because they have Jesus as their co pilots.
K.C. Banx @kbanx.bsky.social:
As a certified meteorologist and climatologist, I cannot express enough how dangerous this is.
Dr Axoplasmicgap @axoplasmicgap.bsky.social:L
Let’s just say, it has nothing to do with “efficiency” and everything to do with Ideology.
Initially just cut the information.
Then, over time, replace it with “convenient” information.
spocknc.bsky.social @spocknc.bsky.social:
Nothing public facing would require a [security clearance], but most positions in government IT require a public trust clearance. NGA (likely using NOAA data), also creates classified weather products that require a SC to access and view.
Bottom line: extraordinarily risky to give these non-vetted hackers access.
Doctor Remulak @imdoctorremulak.bsky.social:
I’d LOVE to find out where they were on Election Night.
TAA @taasupportsukraine.bsky.social:
Why are they complying? I don’t understand how the workers give control over all the agencies almost without a fightIn my experience, most humans are incredible cowards and incredibly selfish and lazy. Today’s human mostly doesn’t give a shit about community, the species or others, just about self. That was amply proven to the world with COVID
lolita shatter @shatterlo.bsky.social:
Where is our fucking military?Massaging and licking the orange one’s dick. They swore an oath to protect the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic.
atlas1885.bsky.social @atlas1885.bsky.social:
The DOGE kid’s name is Nikhil Rajpal
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social:
I can independently confirm Wired’s reporting here, as I was working with @marisakabas.bsky.social
to track down this engineer. Marisa heard that Nikhil Rajpal was given full access to the NOAA system with a NOAA email from sources today. Rajpal has DC roots. His X account is private: x.com/nikrdc
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social:
Serious question, if I get any of the Doge guys on the phone, what do you guys want me to ask the most (assuming they don’t immediately hang up on me)
B-side @traderb66.bsky.social:
Is Elon paying for their lawyers when they go to jail ?
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social:
@pressley.house.gov: “DOGE = Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything… I am so tired of these billionaire boys and their grubby little hands…”
@rosebanditquinn.bsky.social:
Hey. Here are the names of the unauthorized dudes who are creeping into government computers:
The engineers are
Akash Bobba,
Edward Coristine,
Luke Farritor,
Gautier Cole Killian,
Gavin Kliger, and
Ethan Shaotran.
These are the DOGE boys.
https://archive.org/details/screenshot-2025-02-02-at-18.08.06 no wonder Musk wants to destroy archive.org:
woodejesus @timherrin.bsky.social:
Are these the guys that hacked our election? I’m thinking so. Shouldn’t be too hard to find out where they were around the first week in November. Any reporters left?
@whstancil:
If the DOGE kids aren’t federal employees they’ve racked up literally tens of billions in data privacy fines by accessing private data about Americans
Marjie Tennyson @cranberryhorn.bsky.social:
Arrest them today! Bank robbery and identity theft.Useless, convicted felon Adolf Orange will just pardon them
Citizen Jones @citizenjones123.bsky.social:
Who will arrest them.
And any crimes they may be committing have been invalidated by Dictator Trump.
Trying to stop them is now the crime.
Elon said so.
@AurelianofRome:
You can’t charge them with anything that Trump can’t issue blanket pardons for in the end.
Joan Crawford’s Backhand@patriordan77:
Civil suits can be filed in federal court and the president has no authority to overturn awards for damages, so no, not irrelevant.
Jeff Stein@JStein_WaPo:
NEW: Officials across the US government are privately warning that Musk’s DOGE blitz appears to be violating numerous federal laws
Legal objections voiced at Treasury, Education, USAID, GSA, OPM, EEOC, OMB & elsewhere
Messages, audio, interviews all reveal internal concerns
Laws on budget, privacy, security, classification & more said by U.S. officials to be strained if not broken
Among those
– Musk has repeatedly called for stopping Treasury payments, which officials internally have warned would violate Impoundment Control Act. Also could violate due process protections;
– DOGE’s promise to pay federal workers taking the resignation agreement through September has met resistance internally as violating the Antideficiency Act. Unclear if provisions in offer are legally enforceable;
– DOGE’s access to government databases has triggered concerns among U.S. officials about violations of 1974 Privacy Act, which sets up strict standards for sharing individuals’ private information. These concerns have been raised at multiple agencies;
– The executive does not have the ability to unilaterally abolish U.S. agencies, as Musk is demanding of USAID; https://washingtonpost.com/business/2025/
W/ the incredible reporting team of: @ddiamond @faizsays @JaxAlemany @hannah_natanson @Cat_Zakrzewski & more
Altnoaa @altnoaa.bsky.social:
I have colleagues in Silver Spring (NOAA HQ) who, let’s just say “witnessed” Elon’s team at facility and overheard them at various times. Apparently there was a conversation with “giggles” about plans to cancel non-SpaceX launch contracts thru NASA citing “inefficiency”. That’s pretty wild stuff.
Altnoaa @altnoaa.bsky.social:
I think Elon finally figured out that conquering Mars was a fever dream and is impossible.
So, he’s decided to conquer Earth instead.
Charles M @clear-mirror.bsky.social:
Was it ever about Mars?
Altnoaa @altnoaa.bsky.social:
I’ve never actually thought so, and that opinion is supported by my posted opinions on the old site. I think he used reversed psychology on people claiming he needed Starlink to support a Mars mission, when in reality, he built their hopes up on Mars to develop Starlink for a different purpose.
hotbutteredferret.bsky.social @hotbutteredferret.bsky.social:
And I’ve been getting ads for articles discussing how Starlink is being added to cellphones in order to bridge some kind of coverage gap with satellite when cell signals drop. I’m 100% positive it’s actually a backdoor right into everyone’s phone, and all the cell carriers are buying right into it.
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov:
Hearing reports that Musk’s cronies are targeting NOAA — infiltrating key systems and locking out career employees.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.TOO LATE!
Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social:
You won’t encounter a less-political and more publicly beneficial organization than NOAA. It’s filled with scientists, technicians, and analysts who entered their fields because they love what they do. The competence-to-fat ratio is probably higher at NOAA than anywhere. Destroying it is abhorrent.
XOmniverse @shawnhuckabay.info:
It baffles me too. If some rando who didn’t work at my company showed up and started barking orders, I wouldn’t just go “Ok here’s all my company’s sensitive data”
Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social:
… I’d love nothing more than for all these chuds to get thrown into a jail and that jail thrown into the sun
Sky Loyal @sky-loyal.bsky.social:
DON’T FORGET GETTING RID OF NOAA AND GETTING RID OF ALL MENTIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ARE IN PROJECT 2025
Bozzi @bozzione.bsky.social:
So we will have ‘SURPRISE’ dangerous weather now?
DOGE now has access to NOAA’s IT systems; reviewing DEI program, sources say by Matthew Glasser, Julia Jacobo, Kelly Livingston, Will Steakin, Dan Peck and Ginger Zee, Feb 54, 2025, ABC News
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is now scrutinizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the federal agency responsible for forecasting the weather, researching and analyzing climate and weather data and monitoring and tracking extreme weather events like hurricanes, several sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
At least one member of DOGE has entered the Department of Commerce — the agency that houses NOAA — and was granted access to NOAA’s IT systems, according to U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who is the ranking member of a subcommittee with jurisdiction over NOAA. The DOGE move was also confirmed by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee; Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., ranking member of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee; and other current NOAA employees.
MORE: Trump nominates ‘Sharpiegate’ scientist to lead NOAA
DOGE was first denied access to the NOAA IT servers but now has access, according to two sources familiar with the situation. DOGE is looking for anything tied to DEI and whether they have removed anything DEI-related from bulletin boards, including posters and signs, the sources said. They also checked bathroom signs to ensure they complied with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
“Elon Musk and his DOGE hackers are ransacking their way through the federal government, unlawfully gaining unfettered access to Americans’ private information and gutting programs people depend on,” Lofgren and Huffman wrote in a press statement.
“Now they have reached NOAA where they’re wreaking havoc on the scientific and regulatory systems that protect American families’ safety and jobs.”
Personnel changes are being made at the agency, Democratic staff for the House Science, Space and Technology Committee told ABC News, adding that dismantling NOAA without an act of Congress would be unlawful. The committee is investigating efforts to remove employees or changes that would negatively impact the agency’s mission and is trying to determine if this is “another USAID situation.”
NOAA has not returned a request for comment from ABC News.
MORE: USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites
As of Wednesday midday, several key NOAA websites are currently down, including the one that stores global CO2 level data collected at the Mauna Loa Observatory, the longest-running CO2 dataset that goes back to 1958.
NOAA’s public information officer at David Skaggs Research Center, which houses the Earth Systems Research Labs, said the offline websites are part of scheduled maintenance and that a power outage temporarily interrupted internet services.
“During this outage, the National Weather Service office in Pueblo will be performing service backup so that all forecast products and information will be seamlessly available across Boulder’s area of responsibility. Other websites hosted by the Global Monitoring Laboratory, Global Systems Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Laboratory and Physical Sciences Laboratory will be offline until power is restored,” they said.
NOAA manages the National Weather Service, the primary source for forecasts and meteorological data. NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information is the world’s largest provider of weather and climate data. Climate scientists depend on the information to better understand how climate change impacts our planet.
“Americans rely on NOAA’s services, day in and day out,” Lofgren and Huffman said. “The National Weather Service warns communities of incoming severe weather, such as hurricanes, wildfires, and tornadoes. It provides information to emergency managers and decision-makers to support our nation’s commerce – including aviation weather forecasts to prevent weather-related aviation disasters.”
MORE: Democrats threaten to obstruct Trump’s agenda over Musk’s DOGE efforts
In a recent interview with ABC News, South Carolina Emergency Management Division Chief of Preparedness Andrew Phillips said, “We’re really in communication with [NOAA] all throughout the year for different events, including hurricanes.”
“NOAA is a vital piece of our communication strategy,” said Jennifer Brady, senior data analyst and research manager at the nonprofit research group Climate Central.
“Their data is vetted, it’s verified. So, we know we can use it and trust it in our reports.”After humans that are not white, not male, not obedient to mass extermination of the unwanted, there is nothing Nazis hate more than science and data.
A former NOAA employee told ABC News that he is concerned that representatives from DOGE will follow the Elon Musk strategy of breaking things now and fixing them later. He said he’s worried that NOAA’s irreplaceable climate and weather data could be damaged or lost and that DOGE may follow the Project 2025 playbook.
Project 2025 was a plan developed by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tankan extraordinarily evil KKKlan that hates anything and everything truthful, reality, science, data, climate change related that might interfere in polluters’ profits and their rape & pillage- Nazi Musk is one of the world’s worst toxic polluters with SpaceX and Starlink destroying our nights sky; women, persons not white, not perfect, not white baby making; persons not bowing to raping religions, notably evangelical christian, before the election. The group called it an “agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country.”
MORE: New details on Musk’s DOGE agency raise questions about its scope, transparency
During his campaign, Liar convicted felon rapistTrump disavowed the plan and said he is not involved with the effort. However, his nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, was one of the authors.
Project 2025 called for breaking up NOAA and commercializing forecast operations. The document states that NOAA is “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future profit and environment raping by multinational oil gas and coal companies U.S. prosperity.” And they added, “That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized.”
During his confirmation hearing, LiarHoward Lutnick, Trump’s pick to lead the Commerce Department, told senators that he would not follow the Project 2025 recommendations nor break up NOAA. Lutnick is awaiting his final senate confirmation vote.Since when do these fuckers tell the truth in their confirmation hearings?
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@rockney.bsky.social
They want to destroy all science. Especially anything that contradicts their Nazi propaganda, helps people, or provides information. They want 1933 Germany and so far they’re getting it.
Enma Ai @minawasena.bsky.social:
today NOAA, tomorrow NASA
Knight Wizard @mohano7.bsky.social:
Yup and those same mfers should leave NASA alone too. I heard Elon is contemplating merging NASA into Space X. Ron Desantis wants the HQ in Florida and not DC along with all the scientists.
@oscarthelawyer.bsky.social:
NOAA is a vital public asset that should never be privatized. #KeeptheDogeKidsAway
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social:
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you’ll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
Marie Blanca @5dintuition.bsky.social:
Is there any legal precedent for someone in law enforcement to arrest Musk at this point? I don’t think any American voters actually want this. And if they do I hardly consider them working in the interests of this country.
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It’s in black & white in project 2025. Break up NOAA because it is a main driver of the “climate change alarm industry” and as such injurious to future US prosperity. Pp. 674-675
Nyx Cipher @shadowops.bsky.social:
totally being pilfered .. the people I know in the field have removed their online presence and are looking to get out of the country.. beyond dangerous times and not one single elected person is doing anything other than yapping
@talkfree.bsky.social:
Why NOAA? One of the important scientific agencies with major roles to protect our oceans understand our climate reporting on weather events resulting in death and destruction. They are the most ignorant people ever.
Rob Jerman @robertjermaneti.bsky.social:
absolutely… they want to eliminate all government sources of data on performance of the government, the condition of the environment and/or climate and any independent measure of how well/bad the government is doing. no data, no criticism.. cannot complain about rising temps if you dont know
@bengalzae.bsky.social:
My friend works there. Lots of sensitive satellite info. Elmo would love to get his hands on that.
Dr. Laci Brock @stellerarts.bsky.social:
LEAVE NOAA ALONE YOU MFERS
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social:
NOAA manages large ocean fisheries in US waters. Scientists there conduct surveys, sample fish, and run complex models to estimate the levels of sustainable catches. NOAA is recognized as a world leader in creating jobs, producing food, and avoiding overfishing. Kudos to NOAA fisheries!!!!
Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net:
gml.noaa.gov is now non-functional. This is the site that I would go to every month to get updated GHG data for my graphics.
I’m not sure if scrippsco2.ucsd.edu will have access to the CO2 data, or where I will get CH4 data.
I made a local backup of gml last week in anticipation.
In remembrance:
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats, Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’ by Michael Sainato, 5 Feb 2025, The Guardian
Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency.
“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former Noaa official who is now a fellow at the University of New Hampshire.
“They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”
Project 2025, written by several former Trump staffers, has called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency isto profits of billion dollar multinational profit-raping polluters “harmful to US prosperity” for its role in climate science.
Rosenberg noted it had been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services.
He also argued there was no legal authority to abolish Noaa or reduce its budget, outside of reducing it through Congress.
“There’s no real transparency. They just show up wherever they want, do whatever they want. They’re following through on major budget cuts and major staffing cuts,” Rosenberg added. “I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
In response to the prospect of potential cuts of personnel, budget or mission at Noaa, Beth Lowell, US vice-president of the ocean conservation non-profit Oceana, said doing so “will have a ripple effect that sacrifices the communities, jobs, and coastal economies that rely on healthy oceans. And the National Weather Service, part of Noaa, provides daily weather forecasts and lifesaving storm alerts that protect our communities across the country and mariners at sea.”
The organization cited impacts of cuts could include overfishing, increased imports of illegal or unethically sourced seafood, threats to endangered wildlife, and threats to life and property without its weather forecasting and data resources.
“Millions of Americans depend on thriving oceans and productive fisheries for their jobs, businesses, and seafood dinners, and our oceans depend on Noaa,” she said in a statement. “President Trump, his administration, and Congress must safeguard our waters for all who depend on well-managed oceans, and that requires full support of Noaa.”
Noaa deferred comment to the Department of Commerce, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
