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New journal to be published by research organizations to preserve US Climate Report

Two major U.S. science associations called on Friday for submissions to a special compilation that would have fed the National Climate Assessment. This comprehensive report about climate change impacts in the United States was effectively cancelled by the Trump Administration.

The American Geophysical Union, the largest association of Earth scientists and space scientists, and the American Meteorological Society, called for this research in an effort to "maintain momentum" with the sixth NCA whose 400 authors were fired by the Trump Administration last week.

The two organizations stated that the new collection would not replace the NCA, but rather create a vehicle for the work to be continued.

AGU President Brandon Jones said, "It is our responsibility to protect and prepare our communities, neighbors, and children for the increasing risks of climate changes."

The congressionally-mandated assessment, which had been prepared by several federal agencies and hundreds of contributing scientists, aimed to crystallize the top science on climate change and communicate it to wide audiences.

The Global Change Research Act, signed by Republican president George H.W. Bush in 1990, was intended to assist policymakers and businesses working on ways to reduce emissions and adapt to the effects of a warmer world. Bush.

The last NCA report was published in 2023. That year, extreme weather events costing over $1 billion were recorded, with expensive floods, storms, and fires happening roughly every third week.

Donald Trump, the Republican president who rejects the science behind climate change, has also dismissed the 2018 assessment.

He withdrew his country from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest meeting, where it was working on the next global report on the impacts and risks of climate change. (Reporting and Editing by Franklin Paul, Valerie Volcovici)

(source: Reuters)