Trump Dismantling National Center For Atmospheric Research In Colorado (pbs.org)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/19/2336215/trump-dismantling-national-center-for-atmospheric-research-in-colorado
- Source link: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-moves-to-dismantle-national-climate-research-lab-in-colorado
> The Trump administration is [2]dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado , moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country." White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab in a social media post Tuesday night and said a comprehensive review of the lab is underway. "Vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location, Vought said.
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> The research lab, which houses the largest federal research program on climate change, supports research to predict, prepare for and respond to severe weather and other natural disasters. The research lab is managed by a nonprofit consortium of more than 130 colleges and universities on behalf of the National Science Foundation. A senior White House official cited two instances of the lab's "woke direction" that wastes taxpayer funds on what the official called frivolous pursuits and ideologies. One funded an Indigenous and Earth Sciences center that aimed to "make the sciences more welcoming, inclusive, and justice-centered," while another experiment traced air pollution to "demonize motor vehicles, oil and gas operations."
The lab "is quite literally our global mothership," said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University, in a [3]post on X . "Nearly everyone who researches climate and weather -- not only in the U.S., but around the world -- has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources."
She continued: "NCAR supports the scientists who fly into hurricanes, the meteorologists who develop new radar technology, the physicists who envision and code new weather models, and yes -- the largest community climate model in the world. That too. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet."
[1] https://slashdot.org/~echo123
[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-moves-to-dismantle-national-climate-research-lab-in-colorado
[3] https://x.com/KHayhoe/status/2001130802143224203
Vought's in the cabinet for one reason (Score:3)
The billionaires behind Trump know he's at best a useful idiot - they saw in his first term how quickly he can veer off course if he doesn't have a reliable minder nearby.
Guys like Vought see entities like NCAR as an impediment to what they want to do, it's simple as that. They don't want the commoners to feel like the government owes them anything or is gonna do anything to improve the commoners' lives. They want the commoners to be happy spending long, tedious days screwing tiny screws into iPhones for a pittance, then quietly stepping aside and dying when they're no longer able to improve the billionaire's profit margins.
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Seems Important. So prove it. (Score:1)
> She continued: "NCAR supports the scientists who fly into hurricanes, the meteorologists who develop new radar technology, the physicists who envision and code new weather models, and yes -- the largest community climate model in the world. That too. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Boy, kudos for the sales pitch here. A keystone holding up the entire scientific community you say. Understanding of the planet you say.
With such critical importance like that, someone else should fully fund and stand up a replacement NCAR ASAP. After all, a planet is in need.
Don’t all jump up at once now.
Another part of the story. (Score:5, Informative)
From [1]here [npr.org]:
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Rep. Joe Neguse, a Democrat whose district includes
Boulder, have suggested that the proposed NCAR closure amounts to political brinkmanship by
the White House in response to Colorado's refusal to release Tina Peters. Peters, a former
Mesa County clerk, is serving a nine-year prison sentence for illegally accessing voting
machines after the 2020 election. A Republican, Peters was recently pardoned by Trump,
largely symbolic action since she has neither been charged nor convicted in federal court.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5648270/trump-weather-climate-national-center-atmospheric-research-ncar