The White House dropped the country’s highest climate report. You can still find it here

The White House dropped the country’s highest climate report. You can still find it here

 The White House dropped the country's highest climate report. You can still find it here

?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8e%2F3e%2Feaa9ae0e42679a727406f319892c%2Fap25008862210784 The White House dropped the country's highest climate report. You can still find it here
Amnadena residents, California, during forest fires in January 2025. Forest fires became more extreme due to climate change. The Trump administration has registered the National Climate Evaluation website, which is the most comprehensive and reliable source of information on how climate change affects all parts of the United States
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The site that hosts the latest version of the national climate evaluation It has become dark. The sprawling report is the most influential information source on how climate change affects the United States.

The national climate evaluation is widely used by teachers, cities, farmers, judges and ordinary citizens who are looking for answers to common questions such as how high levels of sea surface levels near American cities and how to deal with exposure to forest smoke. The last version had a research Atlas that allowed anyone to identify the current and future effects of global warming in his city or specific condition.

On Monday, the government’s site, which hosts all this information, stopped working.

The Trump administration was already Stop In the next edition of the report, they released all the employees who worked on it.

The White House did not respond to questions about the reason for the climate report dropping, or whether the administration is planning to create the next edition of climate evaluation as a consultation of Congress.

Congress requires the federal government to spread the national climate evaluation every four years. The last edition was published in 2023, and emphasized the degree where climate change is Expensive.

"If you are a human being in the United States, your life is already affected by climate change whether you know that or not," Catherine Hayu, climate scientist who was one of the authors of the report. "If we do not realize it, it is simply because we did not tie the points. The national climate evaluation was one of the basic tools that link these points."

The next version was supposed to be released in 2027, and about 400 volunteer authors began to work on. This work stopped after all federal employees coordinated, left in April.

You can still reach the national climate evaluation on other websites

Although the original National Climate Evaluation site decreased, it is still possible to access information.

An archived version of the latest version Available through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. All the five editions of the national climate evaluation that have been published over the years will also be available on NASA, according to NASA spokesman. NASA does not yet know when this site will be available to the public.

NOAA archive site is not searching in the way that was the original site. An archived version of the original search website is available through Internet Machine tool for internet archive here.

The interactive part of the atlas of the national climate evaluation, which allows users to enlarge in specific locations, is It is still available On the website hosted by the ESRI mapping software company. Climate evaluation use the company’s map platform to publish the interactive ATLAS tool.

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