In a reversal, NASA no longer plans to publish a major climate report whose previous website was scrubbed by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
The report in question, known as the National Climate Assessment<\/a>, was previously housed on globalchange.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n After the Trump administration eliminated the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) website, NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens said that \u201call preexisting reports will be hosted on the NASA website, ensuring continuity of reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n But those plans have changed. <\/p>\n Stevens appeared to indicate in a statement to The Hill on Monday that NASA no longer plans to host the information on its website.<\/p>\n \u201cThe USGCRP met its statutory requirements by presenting its reports to Congress. NASA has no legal obligations to host globalchange.gov\u2019s data,\u201d Stevens said. <\/p>\n The announcement comes amid a broader effort by the Trump administration to downplay or deny climate change\u2019s existence and its impact on extreme weather.<\/p>\n The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for example, has said it wants to\u00a0reconsider its finding<\/a> that climate change poses a threat to the public. It has also\u00a0dismissed all of the scientists<\/a>\u00a0who were set to work on the next version of the climate assessment, the completion of which is mandated by Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 2023 version of the climate assessment can still be downloaded from online government archives<\/a> as of Tuesday, or it can be viewed using the Wayback Machine internet archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a reversal, NASA no longer plans to publish a major climate report whose previous website was scrubbed by the Trump administration. The report in question, known as the National Climate<\/p>\n