Editing National Climate Assessment (section)

== Background ==
The NCA is a major product<ref name="NCANet_2012poster">{{citation |last1=Staudt |first1=A. C. |title=NCAnet: Building a Network of Networks to Support the National Climate Assessment |date=July 31, 2012 |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=dXNnY3JwLmdvdnxuY2EtbmV0fGd4OjFmMjkwZTE0ZWUwYjg2M2Q |journal=AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts |volume=2012 |pages=GC11C–1019 |access-date=May 9, 2014 |publisher=NCAnet |bibcode=2012AGUFMGC11C1019S |last2=Cloyd |first2=E. T. |last3=Baglin |first3=C.}}</ref> of the [[U.S. Global Change Research Program]] (USGCRP) which coordinates a team of experts and receives input from a Federal Advisory Committee. NCA research is integrated and summarized in the mandatory ongoing National Climate Assessment Reports. The reports are "extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="NPR 2025/04/20">{{Cite news |last=Hersher |first=Rebecca |last2=Parks |first2=Miles |date=April 20, 2025 |title=Trump administration cancels the National Climate Assessment |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/nx-s1-5369345/trump-administration-cancels-the-national-climate-assessment |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref> For the Third National Climate Assessment, released in 2014, USGCRP coordinated hundreds of experts and received advice from a sixty-member [[Federal Advisory Committee]]. The Fourth NCA ([[Fourth National Climate Assessment|NCA4]]) was released in two volumes, in October 2017 and in November 2018.