Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report

First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.

The short version

• Last year, the Trump administration did what it could to shut down work on the next US National Climate Assessment, eliminating funding for the US Global Change Research Program and booting hundreds of contributing authors.
• The administration even took past reports offline, forcing others to host copies so the information would still be accessible.
• And this all comes despite the fact that these reports are legally required.

What happened

The first paper has now been added to that collection. It’s the work of 175 authors (many of whom had been working on the US report), and it is actually being published in two journals—one operated by the American Geophysical Union and one by the American Meteorological Society.

Why it matters

That’s because this paper is intended to provide a roadmap to prioritize future contributions.

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