It has previously been available on the agency’s website, requires NOAA staff for its production, and pools data from NOAA scientists for many of its findings.” Zack Labe, a climate scientist who has been an author on NOAA’s peer-reviewed Arctic Report Card since 2020, wrote on social media that the Trump administration’s decision “is truly devastating.” “The Arctic Report Card has been one of my favorite scientific endeavors,” Labe wrote. Last year’s edition of the report card found that “surface air temperatures across the Arctic from October 2024 through September 2025 were the warmest recorded since 1900.” Rick Thoman, an Arctic climate specialist, called the Trump administration’s latest move “devastating news for Arctic environmental monitoring.”