Musk has taken the NOAA CO2 monitoring data from Mauna Lao offline

[Mr.WeRP]

His brownshirts raided the NOAA data center yesterday and now the entire Mauna Lao site is offline: https://gml.noaa.gov/

[DemMedic]

1. Yes, if we don't talk about it

it's not happening.

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. Soon he will visit an Atlantic beach

and command the tide to stop coming in.

[hatrack]

2. "The Connection Has Timed Out"

Motherfuckers.

[surfered]

3. It came up here

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/carbon-dioxide-now-more-than-50-higher-than-pre-industrial-levels

[enough]

4. That link shows June 3 2022

[surfered]

11. You're right. Good eye.

[surfered]

12. The Climate page came up

https://www.noaa.gov/climate

[Ocelot II]

35. Last updated January 10.

[hatrack]

5. Different page - and an old one. What's currently inaccessible is the main NOAA climate page.

ESRL - Earth System Research Laboratory - is the main NOAA source for GHG data, in the case of Mauna Loa going all the way back to 1958, when daily monitoring started.

It also tracks methane, nitrous oxide and other GHGs (i.e. sulfur hexaflouride) which are far smaller parts of total releases, but much more powerful. In the case of sulfur hexaflouride, one ton equals 14,800 tons of CO2.

They'll probably replace the page with a video loop - a closeup of Shitstain's anus-mouth repeating the word "Chinese hoax" over and over and over.

Thankfully, there's the European Space Agency:

https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-carbon-dioxide?tab=overview

[Blue Dotty]

6. Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego shows a daily reading

The new director of NOAA is a trump sycophant, Neil "Sharpiegate" Jacobs.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286701/trump-neil-jacobs-noaa-sharpiegate-misconduct

Latest CO2 reading is 426.12 ppm per The Keeling Curve.

The Keeling Curve is the record of atmospheric CO2 from the Mauna Loa Observatory, starting in 1958.
Scripps CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa are currently supported by Schmidt Sciences with supplemental support from Earth Networks, a technology company collaborating with Scripps to expand the global GHG monitoring network. Support for website development was provided in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Mauna Loa Observatory is run by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/

[defacto7]

22. I wonder how long it will be before the take down the monitor itself? n/t

[Wounded Bear]

28. Mauna Loa was considered the ideal site for CO2 monitoring...

because of it's isolation in the center of the Pacific Ocean and away from large generating centers like cities.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Seems like his enthusiasm for electric cars was all about profit, not about understanding global warming

Now he'll do anything to break science and government.

[dalton99a]

16. +1. Musk is a scammer and a con man.

[Oneear]

9. Donald Trump does not want Us to talk About the Weather

In Cape Girardeau, MO Local Weather, we are to have Rain today, thanks to KFVS-TV Gray Media

[Liberal In Texas]

10. I wish the heads of these agencies would deny entrance to Musk and his henchmen.

Physically deny entry. They're civilians with no authority. They are trespassing and accessing data that amounts to theft. Democrats need to find sympatric law enforcement to make sure the Musk gang does not gain access to agency HQs.

[yardwork]

30. They are afraid.

Cargo planes are leaving daily to Gitmo. Trump says only "the worst of the worst criminals" are on board. However, Colombia reported that the deportees they received were mostly women and children, and not one of them even had a criminal warrant or record.

Trump is no longer sending the planes to countries who can tell the world what is happening. He's sending the planes to Gitmo.

And El Salvador has offered their torture chambers.

[Johonny]

13. I think we can scratch Musk off as a visionary

Or scientist, technologist etc . . . Clearly he is just a rich guy that likes money and power.

One thing is clear. We don't need to goto Mars if everything is now great here.

[haele]

14. He's acting more and more like a weak-sauce Bond villain.

Whatever actual spark of ingenuity he had has been smothered by the Ketamine and Coke.
Once that God delusion sets in, that's all she wrote.
Unfortunately, the more money he gathers, the more influence he has on the greedy or needy.

[yardwork]

31. Did anyone think differently?

I'm astounded that anybody ever thought of Musk as a scientist. He doesn't even have an undergraduate degree.

Tesla was never about the environment. It's a data collection company. Musk collects people's data and sells it to marketers and dictators, who build propaganda to target individuals.

[IronLionZion]

15. Any real engineer will constantly think of what can go wrong and what's the backup plan

Musk is no engineer. He's just a fabulously wealthy supervillain.

[HipChick]

17. There is no actual plan..

Let alone a backup plan..

Unless it's for all the information of data stored on non-encrypted local disks to end up going into the hands of an entity it should not be in

[IronLionZion]

18. Supervillains tend to have nefarious plans

[MissouriDem47]

19. Up Next The Gulf of America

His next job will be to go south to the the Gulf of Mexico and rechristen it "the Gulf of America" he will do it with a bottle of champagne and everything. It will be so exciting.

[karin_sj]

20. Can't find anything in the news about it

Where did you hear this?

[Lulu KC]

33. I did find this in WaPo

Hope the link works. It should, but doesn't always. Headline is good! (not about the website, but about NOAA)

Trump picks scientist involved in ‘Sharpiegate’ scandal to lead NOAA

https://wapo.st/4hl2YL6

[karin_sj]

21. I did find this though on 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.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters

[littlemissmartypants]

23. Scheduled maintenance...?

National Centers for Environmental Information

Please note: Due to scheduled maintenance, many NCEI systems will be unavailable February 4th, 12:00 PM ET - February 6th, 8:00 PM ET. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Home
NGDC Maintenance Outage
Please note: due to scheduled maintenance, data and content on ngdc.noaa.gov will be unavailable from February 4–6, 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience


https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/ncei-co-coop-outage

ETA:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geophysical_Data_Center
National Geophysical Data Center
Scheduled Maintenance

[Mr.WeRP]

24. If it were maintenance, the site would still respond

And show a message. It’s just gone.

[littlemissmartypants]

26. It's still up though. I just went there. Did you double check the link?

[obamanut2012]

34. It isn't coming up, I just checked

It doesn't even time out, it's just not there.

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. That's ncei.noaa.gov, not the gml.noaa.gov in the OP

and the address at the OP (or at, for instance, https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/weekly.html , as used typically to point to the record, eg here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127180493 ) was, and is, not responding at all, rather than showing a "maintenance" message.

[SpankMe]

25. What the actual fuck is going on? n/t

[Ocelot II]

27. What's the point of all this?

What earthly reason could there be for it? There's nothing DEI about volcanoes.

[Diraven]

29. Because

Trump says global warming is a hoax.

[yardwork]

32. DEI was never the point, just an excuse.

The point is to eliminate all information so that the population is uninformed and confused.

No climate data means no lawsuits, no protests, no voters upset about the environment. No data means the situation is whatever the dictator says it is. Trump says, "We have beautiful air now that we've eliminated (insert distraction: DEI, immigrants, brown people, the Nazis used Jews and "deviants" as the reason, whatever the population will go along with)."

[Mr.WeRP]

38. So people stop worrying about burning fossil fuels

Drill-baby-drill! So we can enrich the billionaires so they can acquire enough land and bunkers in the habitable zones after 2/3rds of the planet becomes uninhabitable and 99% of humans die in conflicts, starvation, disease or heat exposure.

[erronis]

37. It sounds as they are getting ready to privatize the weather forecasts.

I know this has been a goal for many years. If you want to know tomorrow's weather, pay your bucks (in crypto, natch). Long-range forecasts will cost a lot more and will be less reliable.

[lostnfound]

39. Yes, that is implied in Project 2025

If i recall correctly, none of the info would be going directly to the public anymore.