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NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do so
The decision will make it harder for the general public to access critical climate data.
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. 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. It outlines localized risks climate change pose to public health, agriculture, infrastructure and more, and is used to guide municipalities' mitigatory steps in the face of natural disasters like floods, heatwaves, storms and droughts on an ever-warming Earth.
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