Given the “dramatic changes” brought about by this administration, “the future will not be the past,” she says. “We are at a time when we have these new tools, new technologies for measurement, measuring, and monitoring,” he says. Notably, the American Geophysical Union and its partners have taken on two additional climate responsibilities that traditionally fell to the federal government. The US Global Change Research Program, an interagency group that ran much of the process, also covered the cost of trips to a series of in-person meetings with international collaborators. The Trump administration also canceled funding for the Global Change Research Program and, earlier this month, fired the last remaining staffers working at the Office of Global Change.