Science
Scientific societies launch independent archive following US climate assessment shutdown
Ars Technica reports that scientific groups established an alternative archive after federal climate reporting was defunded.
The short version
- The American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society established the US Climate Collection to aggregate climate research after federal support was revoked.[Ars Technica]
- The initial published research paper involves 149 authors and acts as a guiding roadmap for future academic submissions.[Ars Technica]
- Instead of publishing a single unified federal report, the repository gathers peer-reviewed studies published across scientific journals.[Ars Technica]
Key facts
- Funding for the US Global Change Research Program was defunded last year and contributors were removed from the US National Climate Assessment.[Ars Technica]
- The American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society established the US Climate Collection to centralize climate research.[Ars Technica]
- The first study added to the new collection was authored by 149 researchers and published jointly in two journals.[Ars Technica]
What remains uncertain
- It remains to be seen how effectively this decentralized collection of peer-reviewed papers will replace the official, legally required federal climate reports.[Ars Technica]
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