Fired climate scientists release report to fill gap left by Trump's shelved climate assessment
175 researchers dismissed from the National Climate Assessment publish an independent collection through AGU and AMS journals.
What to know
- The Trump administration halted the congressionally mandated sixth National Climate Assessment in April 2025 and dismissed hundreds of volunteer scientists.
- 175 independent scientists, many veterans of past assessments, have now published their own research collection through AGU and AMS journals to fill the gap.
- The collection is intended as a roadmap for future climate research and a resource for states and communities building their own climate assessments.
- The Global Change Research Act of 1990 still requires a National Climate Assessment every four years, but the federal program's website and funding remain cut.
“We're stepping in to ensure that we have the research that we need, and that that is going to be available when we're working with our communities, with our states, and that it will be available if there are future U.S. national climate assessments.”
Melissa Kenney, Lead author, director of research at University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment · NBC News ↗ · Sep 21
Melissa Kenney Lead author; director of research, University of Minnesota Institute on the EnvironmentTrump administration Federal executive branchAmerican Geophysical Union Journal publisher (Earth's Future)American Meteorological Society Journal publisher (Bulletin of the AMS)
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Dismissed scientists publish independent climate research collection
175 independent climate scientists, many of whom had contributed to past national assessments, released the first installment of a special collection in the journals Earth's Future and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, meant to serve as a roadmap for future climate research and to support state and local climate assessments.
“Scientists working on climate change are continuing to do the work…”
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More than a year after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the National Climate Assessment, many of those researchers have released the first installment of a special collection of climate change findings designed to fill the perceived gap left behind.
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Trump administration halts work on the sixth National Climate Assessment — Officials told hundreds of volunteer scientists they were no longer needed and cut funding to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which organized the report; the USGCRP website went offline.
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