"The work to dismantle NCAR, founded in 1960, will begin immediately, USA Today reported, and will involve fully closing the center's iconic Mesa Laboratory. NCAR is a unique & valuable assetfar more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space, wrote climatologist Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, on Bluesky. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. [Its] building is an icon, but [its] iconic status goes far beyond that."
"NCAR is quite literally our global mothership, wrote Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy, on Bluesky. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable. The center, based in Boulder, Colo., has become a target because of what Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, described as climate alarmism in a statement to USA Today."
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will be dismantled immediately, with plans to fully close its Mesa Laboratory and relocate weather modeling and supercomputing work to other hubs. NCAR, founded in 1960, supports a broad range of earth science activities including weather, space weather, data management, climate and paleo-climate research, technology, training and gatherings. Administration officials cited concerns about climate alarmism as a rationale for the move. Prominent climate scientists described the action as a severe blow to the nation’s scientific infrastructure and warned it undermines essential capabilities for understanding and forecasting the planet.
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