Private organizations step up to do science that was cut back by the Trump administration
Source: NBC News
May 2, 2025, 5:18 PM EDT
After the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of authors working on the next National Climate Assessment, two science societies announced an effort to publish a special collection of climate change research in its stead. The Trump administration notified researchers earlier this week that their work was no longer needed on the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report that summarizes the effects of global climate change in the United States.
The report’s future is no longer clear and some authors have expressed concern that it will be whittled down, unscientific or inadequate in expressing the risks of climate change. “I’m certainly concerned it might be fulfilled in a way that’s less rigorous and evidence-based,” said Robert Kopp, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University, who was one of the recently dismissed National Climate Assessment authors.
In the wake of the administration’s action, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) announced Friday that they would develop a special collection of research focused on climate, according to a news release from both organizations.
The new collection, to be spread among more than two dozen peer-reviewed journals, is designed to “sustain the momentum” of the work being done on the National Climate Assessment after the authors and staff were dismissed, the news release said.
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American Meteorological Society (AMS) and American Geophysical Union (AGU) PRESS RELEASE - AGU and AMS Join Forces on Special Collection to Maintain Momentum of Research Supporting the U.S. National Climate Assessment
American Meteorological Society (AMS) and American Geophysical Union (AGU) PRESS RELEASE (PDF) - https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/news/news-releases/agu-and-ams-join-forces-on-special-collection-to-maintain-momentum-of-research-supporting-the-u-s-national-climate-assessment/nca-special-collection1/
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