NASA won’t publish key climate change report online, citing ‘no legal obligation’ to do so
https://www.space.com/science/climate-change/nasa-wont-publish-key-climate-change-report-online-citing-no-legal-obligation-to-do-so
NASA won’t publish key climate change report online, citing ‘no legal obligation’ to do so
https://www.space.com/science/climate-change/nasa-wont-publish-key-climate-change-report-online-citing-no-legal-obligation-to-do-so
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> A major climate report, the U.S. government’s primary, peer-reviewed climate assessment that is completed every four to five years, **will not be published on NASA’s website**, reversing course after the White House indicated the space agency would make the document publicly available online.
> The decision complicates public access to the National Climate Assessment (NCA), which contains key scientific findings used to track risks and impacts of climate change across the United States. NASA says it will not post the climate report to its website, **citing lack of legal obligation.** The move contradicts a July 3 statement from the White House naming NASA as the new host for the documents after their original site, globalchange.gov, was shut down, according to an Associated Press report.
> “NASA has no legal obligations to host globalchange.gov’s data,” NASA’s press secretary Bethany Stevens said. She added that the USGCRP, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, responsible for overseeing the study and previously published the findings on its own website, “**met its statutory requirements by presenting its reports to Congress**,” Stevens said.
> The official USGCRP website remains down. **As of yet, no other agency has been publicly assigned to host the reports.**
> The breakdown in public access has drawn concerns about government transparency and long-term support for climate research. The White House’s FY2026 budget proposal for NASA already suggests **stripping the agency of 47% of its science funding**, though that may now be getting some pushback from lawmakers in Congress.
Who pays for NASA? I think the taxpayers would like to know the results of research they PAID FOR!
How about a social, moral, and public good obligation? Oh right, this administration doesn’t give a single fuck about any of that.
Incidentally, this report is mandated by a law that passed Congress unanimously.
The climate is fucked in a porn shop.. I don’t really think they have to say anything to tell us this.
So, it looks like it’s someone else’s report, NASA is just being asked to host it on their website, and they’re saying, “hey, don’t slash our budget and then demand we take on other people’s work too.”
Then I’ve decided I don’t have the legal obligation to tell the truth when filing my tax refund
Given that Trump threatening to fire the person who published low job numbers I think they’re just covering their ass.
You would think one of the thousands of NASA employees who are being let go would release it on their way out. It’s not like it’s some classified secret. Those are kept in Trump’s bathroom.
Tack another down for an upcoming bill. These fucks are so ridiculous.
Republicans want everyone ignorant so they can’t complain about dangers we dont know about just so their friends can rape kids and buy a yacht to house their other yacht.
Since it was presented to congress, this is a no brainer. Anyone in congress with presidential aspirations should make a simple website to host the data and get free publicity.
> Trump claimed that Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), had “RIGGED” jobs figures “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”.
Maybe somebody doesn’t want to get fired for bearing bad nrw
Trump is killing the American space agency (all of them)
If NASA is smart, they would start getting in contact with other governments, seeing if they can mean something or not….
And let American fail to make rockets. Not like trump cares for it anyway, he doesn’t need to own the moon… And now Elon can’t either…
That’s not NASA talking. That is the nazi administration talking. You all know this.
The only thing that moves this sort of obstinacy is lawsuits; the public—taxpayers—needs to get a class action going.
Hey buddy, would you host one of the most cited documents on your sever, after we cut 50% of your budget. Blame Trump not NASA
I feel like any NASA employee or scientist who worked on it that gives a shit about their work would leak it.
Time for anyone left with a soul at any federal agency to start leaking data to the scientific community. Data is not political and we paid for, we deserve to receive it.
Does Canada or Mexico have any apps for this information
I don’t think that’s the reason. Even if they don’t have the legal obligation, they still have the scientists who have worked on this and who obviously want to have their work published if not for other reasons then because they care about their own field.
The real reason is self censorship, a.k.a. cowardice. And the price of it is very high. Both because the world (!) needs this data and information and also because of the future effects of giving in. It will only get worse. It sets an example, the next time the expectations will be higher and it also damages the freedom of other organizations pressured by the political leadership.
I’ve seen this play out over 15 years here in Hungary. It doesn’t end well.
You can tell it’s a serious issue by the resources they devote to smearing and destroying the science
Trump is firing people for simply giving bad news. Not a good time to be the messenger. Still tax payer funded, they have to publish the results.
We are not sliding into another dark age. We have already arrived
The public pays the bills and we deserve to know the outcome of the report.
basically confirming there are no intelligent life forms running this place
Um…this is taxpayer funded. Those are **our** studies. You cannot repossess **our** studies.
So, they cut their money and threw extra responsibilities at them? Sounds like a toxic work environment.
This regime will do anything to deny the reality of climate change. Or any reality as a matter of fact.
Translation: Trump will punish us if we do.
If we publish, he will burn all the research that taxpayers have paid for the past decade.
More wasting of taxpayer dollars.