Bummer: Trump Admin Boots National Climate Assessment Authors

Go work in the private sector, see if anyone will pay you for this

All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed

The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.

The move puts the future of the report, which is required by Congress and is known as the National Climate Assessment, into serious jeopardy, experts said.

Since 2000, the federal government has published a comprehensive look every few years at how rising temperatures will affect human health, agriculture, fisheries, water supplies, transportation, energy production and other aspects of the U.S. economy. The last climate assessment came out in 2023 and is used by state and local governments as well as private companies to help prepare for the effects of heat waves, floods, droughts and other climate-related calamities.

On Monday, researchers around the country who had begun work on the sixth national climate assessment, planned for early 2028, received an email informing them that the scope of the report “is currently being re-evaluated” and that all contributors were being dismissed.

Here’s the one thing: the NCA is required by the idiotic Global Change Research Act of 1990 (GCRA). They must produce one every four years. So, will there actually be one in 2027? Will Trump care? Perhaps Trump will bring in a whole bunch of Skeptics and Realists to produce it, showing that there is no doom and gloom, and no need for more taxes and fees, government control of citizens, and no taking of freedom and personal life choices.

“There may well be a sixth National Climate Assessment,” said Meade Krosby, a senior scientist at the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group and a contributor to the assessment. “The question is whether it is going to reflect credible science and be of real use to our communities as they prepare for climate change.”

Funny how they always end up being blueprints for more Government.

Charles Rotter at Watts Up With That?

The absurdity of the situation becomes even clearer when reading how the dismissed researchers reacted. Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation professor, practically cried into his recycled coffee mug, declaring, “This is as close as it gets to a termination of the assessment. If you get rid of all the people involved, nothing’s moving forward”?. Exactly, Professor Keenan. That was precisely the point. Perhaps it’s time to move forward with serious, grounded research rather than ideologically driven climate sermons.

A cult is involved, so, they will do everything to not allow serious, grounded research. Especially since that would not involve Big Government authoritarianism.

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