A significant shift in climate change research is raising concerns among some University of Colorado Boulder researchers following the shutdown of a major federal climate website by the Trump administration.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program, that hosted climate reports including the well known National Climate Assessment, has been shut down and handed over to NASA to be published on the NASA website.
“The National Climate Assessment is a report that comes out every four years,” said CU Boulder Professor Max Boykoff. “In fact, it’s mandated to be issued every four years to the President and Congress. It’s a report that’s meant to provide information on a variety of issues related to climate and the environment, on trends for the next 25 to 100 years here in the United States. And it was set up as through the Global Change Research Act several decades ago and issued its first report in 2000 and just released in 2023 its fifth report.”…