Damn president is calling for NCAR to close!

[Laffy Kat]

The National Center for Atmospheric is a beautiful building and campus in southwest Boulder. We often go hiking on their trails for the scenery and wildlife viewing. I enjoy taking house guests there to show off our area. It is a Colorado Gem. It will put over 1,000 people out of work, including 600+ scientists.

Speculation that he's doing this as revenge over Governor Polis for not pardoning Tina Peters the former Mesa County clerk convicted for voter fraud. I'm sure it's an added bonus that it will also stifle atmospheric research and keep us from learning how fucked we are.

I am beyond livid.

[wendyb-NC]

1. Closing The National Center for Atmospheric Research is so deliberately ignorant

Censoring the rights of people who want to be informed and look for solutions to existential threats.

[cliffside]

2. NYT article - Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

"Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/climate/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.diTV.OEW9isiUEAAu&smid=url-share

"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.

Mr. Vought wrote that a “comprehensive review is underway” and that “any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.”

[thought crime]

3. Dismantling and Disrupting our society, one step at a time.