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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate. Its research aircraft and sophisticated computer models of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are widely used in forecasting weather events and disasters around the country, and its scientists study a broad range of topics, including air pollution, ocean currents and global warming.
But in a social media post announcing the move late on Tuesday, Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, called the center “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country” and said that the federal government would be “breaking up” the institution.
A friend of mine was part of a Nobel winning team of climate scientists who worked at NCAR. He's retired now, but he's still extremely disappointed to see a place he spent most of his professional career be closed for political reasons. The people who worked there were involved in the kind of scientific research Don finds uncomfortable, so it must be stopped.
Scientists, meteorologists and lawmakers said the move was an attack on critical scientific research and would harm the United States.
And so it goes.
