Overview

• On July 1 the administration took globalchange.gov offline, removing all five editions of the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports
• NASA has been directed to archive preexisting assessments but has provided no details on when or how they will be made publicly accessible
• The website shutdown follows April cuts that dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the Sixth National Climate Assessment and ended the USGCRP’s contract with ICF International
• Climate experts including Peter Gleick and Katharine Hayhoe warn the move amounts to scientific censorship and will hinder planning for droughts, floods and heat waves
• Archived copies remain available via the Internet Archive and agency libraries and scientific societies are coordinating efforts to preserve the reports