{"id":194034,"date":"2025-12-18T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-administration-to-dismantle-key-climate-research-center-in-colorado-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:57:22","slug":"trump-administration-to-dismantle-key-climate-research-center-in-colorado-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-administration-to-dismantle-key-climate-research-center-in-colorado-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder\u2019s NCAR would put \u2018public safety at risk\u2019
The Trump administration<\/a> is breaking up a research center praised as a \u201ccrown jewel\u201d of climate research after accusing it of spreading \u201calarmism\u201d about climate change.
Russell Vought, the director of the White House\u2019s office and management budget, said the National Center for Atmospheric Research<\/a> (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, would be dismantled under the supervision of the National Science Foundation.
\u201cThis facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country,\u201d he wrote<\/a> in a social media post. \u201cA comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.\u201d
The announcement was the latest in a series of climate-sceptic moves by the administration, which has vowed to eliminate what it calls \u201cgreen new scam research activities\u201d.
It drew fierce condemnation from climate experts, who said the Colorado<\/a> centre was renowned for advances in the study of weather patterns, including tropical cyclones.
Roger Pielke Jr, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute thinktank, told USA Today<\/a>, which first reported the story, that the facility was \u201ca crown jewel of the US scientific enterprise and deserves to be improved not shuttered\u201d.
He added: \u201cIf the US is going to be a global leader in the atmospheric sciences, then it cannot afford to make petty and vindictive decisions based on the hot politics of climate change.\u201d
The move was also criticised by Colorado\u2019s governor, Jared Polis, who said it put \u201cpublic safety at risk\u201d.
\u201cClimate change is real, but the work of NCAR goes far beyond climate science,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cNCAR delivers data around severe weather events like fires and floods that help our country save lives and property, and prevent devastation for families.\u201d
The center employs approximately 830 staff and includes the Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, which Vought said would be shut. It also operates two aircraft for atmospheric research and manages a government-owned supercomputing facility in Wyoming.
The decision to dismantle it is consistent with Donald Trump\u2019s frequent characterisations of climate change as a \u201ccon job\u201d or a \u201choax\u201d.
The White House has accused the centre of following a \u201cwoke direction\u201d and identified several projects that administration officials say are wasteful and frivolous, USA Today reported.
These include a Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences that seeks to \u201cmake the sciences more welcoming, inclusive, and justice-centered\u201d, as well as research into wind turbines, an innovation that Trump has repeatedly denounced.
The administration has already proposed<\/a> a 30% cut to the funding of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, slashing spending on its climate, weather and ocean laboratories, which work to improve forecasting and better understand weather patterns.<\/p>\n

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Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder\u2019s NCAR would put \u2018public safety at risk\u2019The Trump administration is breaking up a research center praised as a \u201ccrown jewel\u201d of climate research after accusing it of spreading \u201calarmism\u201d about climate change.Russell Vought, the director of the White House\u2019s office and management budget, said the National Center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}