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Trump comes for climate research (making sense of the USGCRP and NCA) - C C - Apr 22, 2025
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/trump-comes-for-climate-research
INTRO: Last week Politico published a scoop related to climate research under the Trump Administration:
[...] The Politico scoop has some errors and misinterpretations, which have been repeated in other media — The USGCRP has not had its funding canceled and the Trump administration’s cancellation of a contract to a Beltway consultancy need not be the end of the climate assessment, which is required in law.
In this post I explain the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA), and offer some advice on how to fix the NCA.
As chance has it, I actually wrote my 1994 PhD thesis on the 1990 legislation that established the USGCRP. After writing my masters thesis evaluating the Space Shuttle program, I wanted to take on a more complex policy evaluation — So for my PhD dissertation I decided to evaluate the USGCRP.
I could not have possibly imagined that I’d still be writing about the USGCRP more than 30 years later, but here we are... (MORE - missing details)