Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

Reaction to climate site removals and NOAA cuts

• Many see the takedown of federal climate-report sites and planned NOAA cuts as a direct attack on science, basic governance, and citizen safety, likened to “1984” and the movie Don’t Look Up.
• Commenters distinguish between refusing to act on climate (bad but honest) and actively hiding evidence (seen as “cowardly” and an implicit admission that the evidence is damning).
• A summarized internal read of NOAA’s FY2026 plan describes: elimination of most climate/ocean labs and grants, termination of many observation systems and coastal programs, severe reductions in modeling/computing, and large layoffs across research, education, and habitat restoration.

Data redundancy and global reliance on US science

• Some argue that climate observations are inherently hard to suppress: many satellites and sensors exist globally, and studies can be rebuilt with new data.
• Others note how dependent the world has been on US-funded earth science; non‑US commenters say EU and others failed to build equivalent, redundant infrastructures and are now scrambling to safeguard data.

Broader politics and authoritarian drift

• Strong claims that the current US administration is racist, oligarch-friendly, and deliberately dismantling federal capacity, with comparisons to Hungary, North Korea, and a “banana republic”.
• Heritage-style authoritarian ideas and “techno‑king”/city‑state fantasies are discussed as intellectual fuel for anti‑federal, pro‑oligarch policy.
• Concerns extend to speech policing, deportations, and tax changes that favor asset owners and the elderly at the expense of younger workers.

Voters, cruelty, and psychology

• Thread wrestles with whether supporters are “stupid” or consciously malevolent: multiple anecdotes and quotes are offered of voters explicitly wanting leaders to “hurt” disliked out‑groups.
• A cited behavioral study about ~30% of people accepting personal loss to inflict larger losses on others is used to explain current politics, with counterarguments that electoral and zero‑sum structures also matter.

Climate solutions, capitalism, and fossil fuels

• Several insist the technical path to rapid decarbonization (renewables, nuclear, electrification, heat pumps) is clear; the barrier is profit-driven fossil interests and lobbying.
• Dispute over whether fossil fuel companies are uniquely tied to the far right or simply back whichever side protects their profits.
• Another sub‑thread debates whether environmentalism is inherently anti‑capitalist or mostly about internalizing environmental costs within market systems.

Media and cultural analogies

• Don’t Look Up is repeatedly invoked as metaphor; opinions on the film’s quality are mixed, but many feel real-world events are now “re‑enacting” its central warning.