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Our Mission

Keeping trusted climate information up to date and easy to find.

Climate hazards—both natural and human-caused—are a significant threat to public health and safety, to communities and infrastructure, to the economy, and to forests and other natural resources. Americans who don’t understand climate can’t participate effectively in government decisions about climate policy. They can’t have meaningful conversations with friends, family, and neighbors to find pathways to consensus or compromise. They can’t take steps to protect the things that matter to them from climate-related hazards because they aren’t even aware of what’s at risk.

Americans need to understand climate because the very best solutions to our country’s climate-related challenges will emerge from the collective action and creativity of a climate-literate public.

Over the past 20 years, the public has come to depend on science websites of federal agencies for non-paywalled, nonpartisan information to help them understand climate risks and opportunities. At the start of 2025, if you googled “climate” in the U.S., NOAA's Climate.gov was the top organic result. With a reach of 15+ million visits a year and more than half a million followers on social media, Climate.gov was arguably the federal government’s most accessible, most comprehensive source of climate science information for the public.

Climate.us is the nonprofit successor to Climate.gov, delivering climate data and information to promote public climate literacy and to equip people to turn knowledge into meaningful conversations and climate-conscious actions. At a moment when critical climate information was being deleted or distorted, we stepped up to rescue key climate resources—including the U.S. Global Change Research Program's now-deleted Fifth National Climate Assessment—and to ensure the public has continued easy access to the facts.

Our goal is to build an enduring, independent, and scientifically rigorous platform that the world can rely on for climate communication, education, and engagement.

Who We Are

Brought to you by the team that built Climate.gov

For nearly 15 years, NOAA Climate.gov was the U.S. government’s premier platform for climate information for the public. In the first half of 2025, NOAA terminated Climate.gov’s full-time federal and contractor staff, shutting down the site's daily operations.

Now, former members of the Climate.gov team have joined together with nonprofit partners to launch Climate.us : a successor to Climate.gov outside the federal domain, where we can safeguard climate information from political interference.

Meet our core team

Rebecca Lindsey , Director, managing editor

Rebecca Lindsey is a science writer and editor from West Virginia with a biochemistry degree from Virginia Tech and a master's in journalism from Colorado State. Over a 25-year career as a federal contractor, she supported earth science and climate communications at NASA and NOAA, helping create two award-winning websites: NASA Earth Observatory and NOAA Climate.gov. She became Climate.gov's program manager in late 2023 before being fired in February 2025 in a legally contested NOAA reduction in force. She's now leading the effort to launch Climate.us, a non-profit successor to Climate.gov.

Anna Eshelman , Lead designer

Anna Eshelman is a graphic designer and illustrator with over 15 years of experience in producing engaging digital and print graphics, publications, and visual content for science and mission-driven organizations. She holds a BFA in graphic design and a Certificate in Environmental GIScience, and she was an artist with the NOAA Climate.gov team (contractor) before joining Climate.us. Combining big-picture thinking with technical precision, she brings skills in research, iteration, accessibility, and best design practices to every project, and believes that strong design can drive positive change.

Mary Lindsey , Lead data visualizer

Mary Lindsey is a data visualization expert with nearly two decades of experience in earth science, geography, and science communication. For almost 13 years, she played a central role in shaping Climate.gov—recognized as one of the best government resources on the web. She has extensive expertise in transforming complex climate science into compelling visuals for audiences ranging from the general public to the United Nations. She holds an M.A. in Geography from the University of Maryland.

Other contributors

Michon Scott , Writer

Michon Scott is a part-time contributor to Climate.us with over 25 years of experience in science writing. She contributed to NOAA Climate.gov from 2009 until 2025. She has also produced content for NASA, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Robert Simmon , Data Visualizer

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