Deep-sixing the National Climate Assessment — NASA removes politicized data
- July 17, 2025
Staff, Capitol Beat OK
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has begun a process of correcting the blatant politicization of climate science by removing all of the existing National Climate Assessments from its website, a development which a press release from the CO2 Coalition applauded this week.
The Coalition declared, “The assessments’ conclusions were politically driven, lacking a scientific basis. Their removal is consistent with requests by the CO2 Coalition and others to restore integrity to the work of government agencies and with President Trump’s executive order, ‘Restoring Gold Standard Science.’
That Trump E.O. order stated that the U.S. government had promoted scientific information in a “highly misleading manner.”
As recently as June 11, the CO2 Coalition and Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) formally asked the Trump administration to fix the many flaws they say are in existing National Climate Assessments.
The organizations’ letter was sent to Michael Kratsios, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which advises the White House on scientific, engineering and technological aspects of national policy.
PPT and the CO2 Coalition argued that the National Climate Assessments are “riddled with violations of the principles” expressed in Trump’s order.
In promotional materials and on its website, the CO2 Coalition affirms it “was established in 2015 as a 501(c)(3) for the purpose of educating thought leaders, policy makers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy. The Coalition seeks to engage in an informed and dispassionate discussion of climate change, humans’ role in the climate system, the limitations of climate models, and the consequences of mandated reductions in CO2 emissions.”