Private organizations step up to do science that was cut back by the Trump administration

Main Idea: After the Trump administration cut back work on the National Climate Assessment, two science groups said they will publish a new climate research collection to help fill the gap.

Key Points:

• The Trump administration dismissed hundreds of authors working on the next National Climate Assessment and also ended funding for the staff group that organizes it.
• The American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society said they will build a special collection of climate studies across more than two dozen journals.
• The groups said their goal is to keep the work moving and support a future U.S.-focused climate assessment, but not to replace the federal report.
• Scientists warned that without a staffed government process, the National Climate Assessment could become less complete, less rigorous, or harder to use.