Climate predictions beyond 20 years

US government scientists ordered to ignore climate predictions beyond 20 years The administration of US President Donald Trump is moving to limit the duration of climate-change predictions in the influential National Climate Assessment report. Omitting climate modelsthat go beyond the year 2040 would eliminate any mention of the worst-case case scenarios that will occur if we fail to curb carbon dioxide pollution. Critics see the move as a long-feared response to the last edition of the report, which laid bare the enormous risk to the US economy and livelihoods by the end of the century if current trends in global greenhouse-gas emissions continue. The New York Times | 10 min read Read more: Fire, drought, flood: climate challenges laid bare in US government report (Nature, from November) Reference: National Climate Assessment report (from November)