Scientists Continue Climate Work Despite Trump
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After Trump dismisses hundreds of scientists working on climate report, two groups say they will publish their work.
Two US scientific organisations have announced that they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis and its impact in order to “maintain momentum”. The move comes days after the Trump administration dismissed some 400 contributors to the National Climate Assessment (NCA), a multi-year government study examining how the US can prepare for the impacts of climate change, including extreme heat, flooding and hurricanes.
The American Geophysical Union, the world's largest association of earth and space scientists, and the American Meteorological Society, the professional society for atmospheric and related sciences and services, are inviting climate scientists and researchers to submit their work for what they said would be a "first of its kind" collection, reports CBS News.
“It’s incumbent on us to ensure our communities, our neighbours, our children are all protected and prepared for the mounting risks of climate change,” said AGU president Brandon Jones. “This collaboration provides a critical pathway for a wide range of researchers to come together and provide the science needed to support the global enterprise pursuing solutions to climate change.”
The National Climate Assessment is a major publication produced every four years that summarizes the impacts of climate change in the U.S., and it is congressionally mandated under the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The sixth edition is scheduled for publication in 2027, and preparations have been underway for months to meet that deadline.
The assessment helps federal, state and local governments and businesses to prepare for the impacts of climate change and adapt to and mitigate challenges arising from climate change.
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