GoKawiilAGU and AMS launch 'US Climate Collection' to replace scrapped National Climate Assessment
After the Trump administration cut funding for the US Global Change Research Program and pulled past climate reports offline, the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society created a new system to preserve this research. Instead of one coordinated government report, teams of scientists will publish peer-reviewed papers in journals that feed into a shared 'US Climate Collection.' The first entry, authored by 149 researchers—many of whom had worked on the now-defunct federal assessment—was published simultaneously in two journals to set priorities for future submissions.
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National climate assessments are legally mandated and serve as a trusted, centralized digest of scientific evidence for policymakers and the public, so their disappearance leaves a gap in accessible, authoritative climate information. This peer-reviewed, decentralized approach is an attempt by the scientific community to keep that function alive without federal backing, though it lacks the same institutional authority and coordination as a government-sanctioned report.
- Trump administration defunded the US Global Change Research Program and removed past climate reports from public access.
- AGU and AMS created the 'US Climate Collection' to house peer-reviewed research meant to inform future assessments.
- The inaugural paper, from 149 authors, was published in two journals to guide prioritization of future climate research contributions.
Source: arstechnica.com, 2026-09-22
Published there as: “Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report”
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