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Ladd KeithNew interview with the New York Times on the cuts threatening the Congressionally-mandated Sixth National Climate Assessment, where I am an author of the Southwest chapter. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/climate/trump-national-climate-assessment.html #climatechange #climateassessment #nca #usgcrp
Update. "White House ends funding for key US climate body"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-national-climate-assessment-usgcrf
"The White House is ending funding for the body that produces the federal government’s pre-eminent climate report, which summarizes the impacts of rising global temperatures on the United States. Every four years, the US Global Change Research Program (#USGCRP) is required by Congress to release a new national climate assessment to ensure leaders understand the drivers of – and threats posed by – global warming. It is the most comprehensive, far-reaching and up-to-date analysis of the climate crisis, playing a key role in local and national decision making about agriculture, energy production, and land and water use…But now, #NASA has ended its contract with the consulting firm ICF International, which convened the USGCRP and coordinated the federal agencies that contribute to the quadrennial report."
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