Trump’s Gutting of US Climate Report Prompts Science Groups to Step Up

Two US science organizations are launching a new climate research initiative in the wake of the Trump administration dismissing expert authors of the National Climate Assessment.

Described in a May 2 statement by the groups as a “first-of-its-kind special collection” of research on climate change in the US, the effort won’t be able to replace the sweeping, congressionally mandated assessment, which was a year into its sixth iteration when its authors and staff were let go, said the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. But they hope that it will help keep the work going.