Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change report on NASA website as promised
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trump administration took another step to make it difficult to find great, legally compulsory scientific assessments of how climate change has endangered the nation and people of climate change.
At the beginning of this month, Official government websites The authorized one, Refereed national climate evaluations darkened. Such sites tell state and local governments and the world of warming people in their backyard and how to adapt the best to him. At that time, the White House said NASA would host the reports to comply with. 1990 law requiring reportsHe said the space agency is planning to do it.
However, NASA announced on Monday that it has canceled these plans.
NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens welcomed the legal requirements by presenting the USGCRP reports to the Congress. He said. This said that the data that coordinates the study from the evaluation or the government science office would not mean that NASA will not be in NASA.
“All previous reports will be hosted on the NASA website and will ensure the continuity of reporting.”
Texas Tech Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe said, “This document is written for the American people paid by taxpayers, and the disasters that continue to mount it contains vital information that we need to keep safe in a climate because it shows tragic and clear.” Nature protection is the chief scientist and is a common author of several past national climate assessments.
Copies of past reports library And the latest report and interactive horse can be seen Here.
Former Obama White House Science Advisor and Climate Scientist John Holdren blamed the explicit lying and long -term administration aimed at censoring or burying reports.
“The new stance is the wrong orientation of the classic Trump administration, Hold Holdren said. “In this example, the management offers a modest consolation to prevent the first anger for the closure of the globalchange.gov site and the disappearance of national climatic evaluations.
“They do not want the people’s climate change to see meticulously mounted and scientifically confirmed information about what we have done for our farms, forests and fishing, and also storms, floods, fires and coastal property – and how all these damages will grow in the absence of harmonious action.”
Therefore, it is important that states and local governments and people see these reports every day. “He told them what climate change is doing and that they were written in a way that is useful for people who need to understand what to do to their loved ones, their property and their environment.
“Trump does not want people to know, Hold he wrote.
The latest report published in 2023 found that climate change was often affected by the security of people, health and livelihoods, minority communities, especially domestic Americans, in every corner of the country. disproportionate at risk.
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