Key climate change reports removed from US government websites | Climate crisis

The national legally compulsory national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from federal websites designed to display them, which makes it more difficult for the governments of states and local and the public to learn what to expect in their sites in their sites of a warming world.

Scientists have said that the authorities evaluated by peers save money and lives. The websites of national assessments and the global research program for American changes were down Monday and Tuesday without links, notes or references elsewhere. The White House, which was responsible for the evaluations, said that the information will be hosted within NASA to comply with the law, but have given no other details.

NASA websites on evaluations on websites has not revealed them. NASA has not responded to requests for information. The national ocean and atmospheric administration, which coordinated information in the assessments, has not responded to repeated requests.

“It is essential for decision -makers across the country to know what is the science of assessing the national climate. It is the most reliable and revised climate-revised information source for the United States, “said Kathy Jacobs, an air conditioning from Arizona University, who coordinated the 2014 version of the report.

“It’s a sad day for the United States if it is true that the national climate assessment is no longer available,” added Jacobs. “These are evidence of serious falsification of the facts and access of people to information, and this can in fact increase the risk that people are injured by the climate -related impacts.”

Harvard’s climateist, John Holdren, who was Barack Obama’s scientific advisor and whose office directed the assessments, said that after the 2014 edition, he visited the governors, mayors and other local officials who told him how useful the report of 841 pages had been useful. This helped them decide to raise roads, build dikes and even move hospital generators from basements to roofs, he said.

“This is a government resource paid by the taxpayer to provide information that is really the main source of information for any city, state or state agency that tries to prepare for the impacts of an evolving climate,” said Katharine Hayhoe, Climate de Texas Tech, who was a voluntary author for several editions of the report.

Copies of previous reports are still far from the Noaa library. The NASA Science Open data standard includes died links to the evaluation site.

The most recent report, published in 2023, includes an interactive atlas which zooms in at the county level. He found that climate change affects the safety, health and livelihoods of people in all corners of the country in different ways, the minority and Amerindian communities often disproportionately.

The Global Change Research Act from 1990 requires a national climate assessment every four years and orders the president to create a global research program for world changes in the United States. In the spring, the Trump administration told the volunteer authors of the next climate assessment that their services were not necessary and had ended the contract with the private company which helps coordinate the website and the report.

In addition, the Noaa Climate.gov’s main website has recently been sent to another Noaa website. Social media and NOAA and NASA blogs on climatic impacts for the general public have been cut or eliminated.

“It’s part of a horrible horrible situation,” said Holdren. “It’s just a terrible demolition of scientific infrastructure.”

National assessments are more useful than international climatic reports published by the UN every seven years approximately, because they are more localized and more detailed, said Hayhoe and Jacobs.

National reports are not only evaluated by peers by other scientists, but examined for accuracy by the National Academy of Sciences, federal agencies, staff and the public.

Camper reports censor science, said Jacobs.

It is also dangerous for the country, said Hayhoe, comparing it to the direction of a car on a curved road by looking at only the rear view mirror: “And now, more than ever, we must look to the future to do everything it takes to do it around this curve safely. It is as if our windshields were painted. ”