As climate change has grown from a distant threat to a present danger, federal support for global change research also grew: from about $1 billion in 1990 to $2.6 billion per year in the 2010s, peaking at $4.3 billion in 2023. …
Then came the second Trump administration.
… As part of its broader politicization of nonpartisan institutions and subordination of evidence to political goals, it has scorned climate science and promoted disinformation about what it calls “climate alarmism.”
But the scientific community is fighting back. …
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When the Trump administration shut down the Sixth National Climate Assessment, [American Geophysical Union] and the American Meteorological Society launched a cross-journal U.S. Climate Collection to solicit synthesis papers that will inform future assessments of climate risks and solutions in the U.S. This project (for which I’m now on the steering committee) is not a substitute for the legally required National Climate Assessment, which needs tens of millions of dollars and extensive stakeholder engagement to do properly. But it’s an opportunity to strengthen the foundations for future assessments—perhaps even to think about how assessments can be done better in the future.
