[Vision2020] --7-21-25 Realclimate.org: National Climate Assessment links: "...it has become hard to locate...National Climate Assessments"

[Ted Moffett]

Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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I find the wording "For some reason..." as quoted from the Realclimate.org
article referenced here to be hilarious!  We damn well know the reason,
right?

As the New York Times article from 7-1-25, linked in this Realclimate.org
article, indicates in the headline *"National Climate Report Website Goes
Dark." * A screenshot of this development is copied at the bottom here.

However, this NY Times article is not fully "open access."  When I clicked
on the link off the Realclimate.org website, I could not read it without
jumping through hoops  However, when clicking on the *"For some reason"*
option that is copied below, with the words* "some reason" *colored red to
indicate they link to the New York Times article just mentioned, the full
article was now "open access."  Weird!

But the Realclimate.org article is fully open access, with comments from
readers of Realclimate.org.  This article offers options to still find
these climate assessments.  A few quotes from the article are copied below:

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/07/national-climate-assessment-links/

For some reason
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/climate/national-climate-assessment.html>,
it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments
(NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it’s
pretty hard to find the USGRCP as well…). However, the reports are still
accessible if you know where to look. So for future reference, here are all
the links (and we’ve downloaded the pdfs locally so that they will always
be available here).

David says

21 Jul 2025 at 10:05 PM
<https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/07/national-climate-assessment-links/#comment-836208>

Thank you for doing this. Don’t have any polite words for why it seems okay
in D.C. to ignore that NCA6 remains still required by LAW. Guess Article I
of the U.S. Constitution doesn’t seem to matter much these dark days, so
I’ll just again say thank you for this.

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