National Climate Assessment

Source: The Hill

On April 28, 2025, the Trump administration dismissed all of the scientists working on the sixth National Climate Assessment - a major congressionally-mandated climate report that details the way the changing climate impacts the U.S. Meanwhile, an internal budget document indicated that the administration hopes to eliminate the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office, which conducts climate and other research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

More than 400 people had been working as volunteers on the national assessment until they received the email. The report, which is mandated by Congress under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, provides a U.S.-specific assessment that can help communities prepare for climate change.

President Trump, while on the campaign trail, quipped that climate change, which threatens to increase flooding ten-fold over the next 30 years, would create "more oceanfront property."

In 2018, the Trump administration published the Fourth National Climate Assessment, releasing it the day after Thanksgiving.

The 5th National Climate Assessment - often referred to as NCA5 - was published November 2023.

The link above will no longer work since the Trump Administration has now removed current and past National Climate Assessment reports from many government websites. Below are alternative links that may work, although these sites will likely be scrubbed by the Administration in the future.

5th National Climate Assessment

5th National Climate Assessment

After the Trump administration eliminated the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) website, NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens said that "all preexisting reports will be hosted on the NASA website, ensuring continuity of reporting." But those plans have changed. "The USGCRP met its statutory requirements by presenting its reports to Congress. NASA has no legal obligations to host globalchange.gov's data," Stevens said.