The National Climate Assessment website is currently inactive, which disrupts access to vital information regarding climate change's effects on the United States. This assessment is extensively utilized by educators, city planners, and citizens seeking answers about rising sea levels and wildfire smoke. The Trump administration halted the production of the next edition, with staff dismissal occurring in April. While the last edition emphasized the preventable nature of climate change and its costs, work on the next edition was expected to continue until the website's shutdown.
The National Climate Assessment is widely used by teachers, city planners, farmers, judges and regular citizens looking for answers to common questions such as how quickly sea levels are rising near American cities and how to deal with wildfire smoke exposure.
The last edition was published in 2023, and underscored the degree to which climate change is expensive, deadly and preventable.
If you are a human being in the United States, your life is already being impacted by climate change whether you know it or not, says Katharine Hayhoe.
The next edition was supposed to be released in 2027, and about 400 volunteer authors had started working on it.
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