Links to the U.S.’s most comprehensive climate reports—the National Climate Assessments—disappeared from the Internet on Monday, along with the official government website that houses them

Links to the nation’s most comprehensive climate reports disappeared from the internet on Monday — along with the official government website that houses them.

The White House did not respond Monday to questions from POLITICO’s E&E News on what happened to the reports or to the website for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which coordinates federal climate research. An archived version of the USGCRP site confirms it was still active as of Sunday.

But the removal of the USGCRP website and the accompanying reports tracks with recent actions by the Trump administration as it relates to climate research.

The missing reports are known as the National Climate Assessments, which are mandated by Congress and are published periodically by the USGCRP. For years, they have outlined the dangers that climate change poses to the United States, and the most recent version — released in 2023 — warned of “potentially catastrophic outcomes” for the U.S. as global temperatures rise and extreme weather worsens.

  • relianceschool@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is an absolute travesty. The NCA5 was some of the most comprehensive data on climate change in the US, and included sets of projections for multiple degrees of warming. This erasure (and the termination of scientists working on the NCA6) is a huge blow to anyone looking to build resilience in this country.

    I had a feeling this was coming, so I pre-emptively archived both the data sets and the reports. You can access them with the links below:

    You can access a snapshot of the page here; I’ve also posted analyses of this data (along with interactive maps) here, here, and here.