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.
Rather than facilitating the writing of a giant, coordinated report, the groups are inviting teams of researchers to publish peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, which will then be added to a centralized resource for future report-writers.
Assessment reports like those produced by the US and the IPCC serve several purposes.
Whether you’re a major city planning infrastructure to prevent flooding or a farmer looking to separate climate trends from weather variability, these reports should be go-to resources.
Any groups working on those assessment reports will then be able to lean on the US Climate Collection in the absence of a high-quality US National Climate Assessment.
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This all comes although these reports are legally required. It’s the work of 149 authors, and it is being published in two journals—one operated by the American Geophysical Union and one by the American Meteorological Society.
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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.
Later in the year, the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society announced an effort to give researchers a central place to compile the kind of work that would have fed the next US report, as well as potential regional and local reports. Rather than facilitating the writing of a giant, coordinated report, the groups are inviting teams of researchers to publish peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, which will then be added to a centralized resource for future report-writers.
The first paper has now been added to that collection.
Assessment reports like those produced by the US and the IPCC serve several purposes.
In addition to being sources of information about scientific progress, assessment reports are also intended to be directly useful for planning and policymaking at all levels. Whether you’re a major city planning infrastructure to prevent flooding or a farmer looking to separate climate trends from weather variability, these reports should be go-to resources.
The paper also calls out ways that assessments could mirror or build on the regional focus employed by past National Climate Assessments.
Any groups working on those assessment reports will then be able to lean on the US Climate Collection in the absence of a high-quality US National Climate Assessment.
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