[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-scientists-build-workaround-after-us-axes-climate-report":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},7235,"scientists-build-workaround-after-us-axes-climate-report","Scientists Build Workaround After US Axes Climate Report","Two science groups published the first paper in a workaround meant to keep climate research centralized, not replace the axed US report.","The next US National Climate Assessment isn't coming, so scientists built a workaround instead.\n\nLast year, the Trump administration cut funding for the US Global Change Research Program, removed authors from active work on the report, and even took past federal climate assessments offline, forcing outside groups to host copies. In response, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society launched the US Climate Collection, a shared home for peer-reviewed climate research that would otherwise have fed into the next official report. Instead of coordinating one giant government document, the collection accepts individual papers from research teams and folds them into a growing archive that future report writers can draw from. The first entry just landed: a paper with 149 authors, many of whom had been working on the shelved federal assessment, published simultaneously in journals run by both sponsoring societies.\n\nThis isn't a rewrite of the National Climate Assessment. It's a workaround, built by two scientific societies with no legal mandate and no guaranteed government funding, patching a gap the administration created despite a legal requirement to keep producing these reports. The paper itself is explicitly a roadmap, meant to help organize future contributions rather than replace the assessment's scope.\n\nIt's a scrappier, more decentralized stand-in for a process the government dismantled, assembled by many of the same researchers it fired.","[\"climate science\",\"climate policy\",\"research funding\",\"government shutdown\"]","2026-09-22T16:26:30.000Z","2026-09-22T19:40:40.494Z","2026-09-22T19:40:46.705Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The dek calls the new effort a 'replacement' for the National Climate Assessment, but the body explicitly states 'This isn't a rewrite of the National Climate Assessment. It's a workaround' — reword the dek to match the body's own characterization (a stopgap\u002Fworkaround, not a replacement).","resolved","science",[32,33,34,35],"climate science","climate policy","research funding","government shutdown",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"Ars Technica","https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Fscience\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Feffort-begins-to-fill-the-void-left-by-terminated-us-climate-report\u002F",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,58,63,68,71,75,80,85,90,95,100,105],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",4195,"2026-09-22T19:28:23.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",702,"2026-09-22T21:01:05.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Policy","policy",366,"2026-09-22T18:04:41.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Deals","deals",200,"2026-09-22T19:28:55.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Hardware","hardware",167,"2026-09-22T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":30,"count":70,"latest_published_at":18},"Science",131,{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":67},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",110,{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Software","software",79,"2026-09-22T19:44:31.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",78,"2026-09-18T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Startups","startups",63,"2026-09-22T21:24:11.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Gaming","gaming",45,"2026-09-22T15:35:06.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"General","general",43,"2026-09-21T23:48:56.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"Reviews","reviews",27,"2026-09-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]