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"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 National Center for Atmospheric
Research's original focus.
“The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for
Atmospheric Research 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.”
Efforts to dissolve the National Center for Atmospheric Research will begin
immediately, the official said, with the plan being to fully close the center's
Mesa Laboratory in Boulder.
It comes after President Donald Trump has also pushed massive cuts to the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, including eliminating
the agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and ending funding for
its climate, weather and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes."
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