Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

[douglas9]

WASHINGTON ‒ The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Trump officials have circled the federally funded research institution, based in Boulder, Colorado, as a hub for "federal climate alarmism" after it was established decades earlier in 1960 for research in atmospheric chemistry and physical meteorology.

The administration plans to identify and eliminate what it calls "green new scam research activities" during an upcoming review of the center, according to the White House, while "vital functions" such as weather modeling and supercomputing will be moved to another entity or location. The White House billed the restructuring as a return to the NCAR's original focus.

“The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado," Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget said in a statement to USA TODAY. "This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway and any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.”


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6942047625625600014c41b7

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. The.man is proud of his ignorance.

[hatrack]

2. They want us all to die.

All of us who are not of "The Elect" or "The Godly".

All of us who aren't going to be Hoovered to Heaven, or living in billionaire bunkers.

And they're oh so pro-life.

[lapfog_1]

3. NCAR was one of the best scientific research facilities in the world

I was the person in the federal government that captured and stored the remote sensing data for global climate studies for most of 1990s. NCAR in Boulder and Cheyenne, NASA Goddard in Maryland... these were the centers in the US government responsible for looking at climate. I was at NASA Ames in Mountain View. When it was clear the Lockheed Martin was punting their multi-100 million dollar contract to build the EOSDIS ( Earth Observation System - Distributed Information System ), VP Al Gore asked NASA administrator if NASA had any other resource or contracts that could help. The only other NASA sites ( at that time ) with supercomputer facilities was Ames, Goddard, and JPL. Ames, in the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation facility ( we did virtual reality Wind Tunnels ) was chosen... and I was the team lead for the supercomputer mass storage system ( just outed myself here, oh well ). Gore chose us to build the new mass storage facility and networks from the TDRS down link at White Sands and then distribute the then "massive" datasets ( 3 PB ) to Goddard, NCAR, and 7 universities around the nation.

Not looking at the temperature gage doesn't change the temperature. You can't change physics by simply wishing it away.

Parts of this world are changing... rapidly... their will be more weather related disasters when we keep treating the earth like a test tube.

Of course the earth will survive. life of earth will survive. It has in the past. However 9 billion people may not. Fewer than 1 billion might survive, maybe. I guess we will find out.

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Sorry NCAR.

I hate these people that are this willing to be ignorant with the heat of a thousand suns.

[kerouac2]

4. Thought something like this would happen after reading other post

And sure enough, I find this a second later.

Here's the du post about the climate report
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127186911

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. It's like having a flat-earther in charge of NASA. Or Brainworm Bob in charge of HHS.

They are the worst people, in every single department, to have ever been the US government. They'll be responsible for the deaths of tens of millions, worldwide, by the time they've gone.