Trump's Attack on Weather Center Would End Lifesaving Meteorological Research

"According to a tweet by Russell Vought, an architect of Project 2025 and currentdirector of the Office of Management and Budget, the administration had determined that the Colorado-based center was a hub for "climate alarmism." Dismantling it - and farming out its surviving, non-climate-change-related functions to other agencies - would strike a blow against a scientific community that has come to the overwhelming conclusion that global warming is real, caused by human activities, and accelerating."

"NCAR has long been in team Trump 2.0's crosshairs. Previous proposals called for its funding to be slashed by 40 percent. The administration has also sought to end most climate-related research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and websites for the Environmental Protection Agency have scrubbed mentions of human-caused climate change. As a result, institutions that were once considered among global gold standards for the delivery of accurate scientific information on the climate crisis are now effectively neutralized."

The administration announced plans to eliminate the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), calling it a hub of "climate alarmism" and proposing to reassign surviving non-climate functions to other agencies. The action would dismantle a major science center that underpins the scientific consensus that global warming is real, human-caused, and accelerating. NCAR employs more than 800 people, and the targeting carries political consequences in Colorado, where the governor opposes many administration policies and election conspiracist Tina Peters remains imprisoned despite a federal pardon. Earlier proposals sought a 40 percent funding cut to NCAR, and parallel moves have curtailed NOAA and EPA climate work.

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