Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report
First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.
The US administration's efforts to halt the work on the upcoming National Climate Assessment report have been met with resistance from the scientific community. In the previous year, the Trump administration had cut funding for the US Global Change Research Program and removed the previous reports from public access. Despite the legal requirement for these reports, the administration's actions aimed to leave a significant void in climate research.
However, the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society have taken action to fill this gap. They have launched an initiative to create a centralized repository for climate research. Known as the US Climate Collection, this project differs from the US Global Change Research Program and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Instead of coordinating a single, extensive report, the US Climate Collection invites individual teams of researchers to publish their findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals. These papers will then be compiled in a centralized resource, making it easier for future climate report writers to access and utilize the research.
The collection has already welcomed its first contribution—a paper authored by 149 researchers. Many of these authors had been involved in the US report that was slated for publication. The paper is being published in two journals, one operated by the American Geophysical Union and the other by the American Meteorological Society. This is a deliberate decision, as the paper aims to serve as a roadmap for prioritizing future contributions to climate research.
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