The Trump administration reverses its promise to publish key climate reports online : NPR
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The Trump administration made another step on Monday to make more difficult to find major and legally mandated scientific assessments on the way in which climate change endangers the nation and its people.
Earlier this month, the government’s official government websites that hosted the national climate assessments for peer assessment made the darkness obtaining. These sites indicate to the governments of states and premises and the public what to expect in their backwards of a warming world and how to best adapt to it. At the time, the White House said that NASA would house reports to comply with a 1990 law that requires reports, which the space agency said it was planning to do.
But on Monday, NASA announced that it had aborted these plans.
“The USGCRP (the government agency which supervises and used to host the report) has satisfied its legal requirements by presenting its reports to the Congress. NASA has no legal obligation to host Globalchange.gov data,” said NASA press secretary, Bethany Stevens, in an email. This means that no data from the evaluation or the government of the government of the government which coordinated the work will be part of NASA, she said.
On July 3, NASA published a statement that said: “All preexisting reports will be organized on the NASA website, ensuring the continuity of reports.”
“This document has been written for the American people, paid by taxpayers, and it contains vital information we need to keep us safe in a changing climate, because the disasters that continue to go up show so tragically and clearly,” said Texas Tech climateist Katharine Hayhoe. She is chief scientist of the Conservancy nature and co-author of several national national climate assessments.
Copies of previous relationships are still far from the library of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the last report and its interactive atlas can be seen here.
The former scientific and scientific advisor of the White House of Obama, John Holdren, accused the administration of lie and of a long time censor to censor or bury reports.
“The new position is a bad direction in the classic Trump administration,” said Holdren. “In this case, the administration offers modest consolation to repress the initial indignation concerning the closure of the globalchange.gov site and the disappearance of national climate assessments. Then, two weeks later, they tear off consolation without excuses.”
“They simply do not want the public to see meticulously assembled and scientifically validated information on what climate change already does to our farms, our forests and our peaches, as well as on storms, floods, forest fires and coastal goods – and on the way in which all these damages develop in the absence of a concerted repair action”, declared Holdren.
This is why it is important that the governments of states and local and every day people see these reports, said Holdren. He said they are written in a way that is “useful to people who need to understand what climate change and will do them, their loved ones, their property and their environment”.
“Trump doesn’t want people to know,” Holdren wrote.
The most recent report, published in 2023, revealed that climate change affects the security, health and livelihoods of people in all corners of the country in different ways, with minority communities, especially Amerindians, often at risk in a disproportionate manner.
