'Every day is a trainwreck': Scientists lash out at Trump's newest sabotage

Former government scientists are enraged as President Donald Trump's administration rips down a major climate tracking website, ABC News reported on Tuesday evening.

"The website of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which hosts numerous climate change reports and resources, including the comprehensive and often cited National Climate Assessments, is no longer operational, according to a NASA spokesperson," said the report. This website, "along with all five editions of the National Climate Assessment and a wide range of information detailing how human-amplified climate change is impacting the United States."

This comes after the administration announced in April that it would cancel all research for this program and fire all researchers working on the sixth edition for 2028, despite it being mandated by congressional appropriations.

The Trump administration has increasingly pushed the idea that they have the right to simply withhold money Congress allocated from programs that it disagrees with, which was made illegal by the 1974 Impoundment Control Act.

For their part, Trump officials have stated that previous reports from the Global Change Research Program will now be directly hosted by NASA. However, the dismantling of the climate program set off alarm bells among scientists who have worked for the federal government.

"The National Climate Assessment, and all special reports and past assessments, are now offline. Federal climate science is being systematically erased," said former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate staffer Haley Crim, who added that while the administration isn't exactly censoring all climate resources as they did with diversity programs, "It's the culmination of expired contracts, decisions about individual products, lack of staffing and resources, and refusal to protect climate information."

Zach Labe, another NOAA climate scientist, posted "Every day is a trainwreck for climate science. Stay aware of what is happening, and speak out!" on Bluesky.

Earlier in the year, many concerned experts, expecting a purge of this nature, began privately archiving a number of federal websites at risk of being shuttered by the Trump administration, on topics including climate science, LGBTQ issues, AIDS prevention, and references to minority inclusion.