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Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research\u2019s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a world-leading Earth-science centre in Boulder, Colorado. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The centre\u2019s modelling and Earth observations underpin a wide range of US and global research, especially on climate. Nature.com<\/a> has the story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country,\u201d wrote Russell Vought, Trump\u2019s budget director, announcing the planned closure in a post yesterday on the social-media platform X. In a statement, the White House called NCAR \u201cthe premier research stronghold for left-wing climate lunacy\u201d. The plan was first reported<\/a> by USA Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House said that the National Science Foundation (NSF)<\/a>, which provides funding for the centre, \u201cwill be breaking up NCAR to eliminate Green New Scam research activities. Any vital functions, such as weather modeling and supercomputing, will be moved under the purview of another entity or location.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) \u2014 the non-profit consortium of more than 130 colleges and universities that runs NCAR \u2014 received a letter of intent from the NSF regarding the planned break-up of NCAR, consortium president Antonio Busalacchi told\u00a0Nature<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter requested information regarding divesting, transferring or restructuring the various components of NCAR. It mentioned NCAR\u2019s research aircraft fleet and its supercomputing center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as components that might be relocated. \u201cMorale is terrible,\u201d Busalacchi says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any such action will be challenged by members of Congress. \u201cI for one am not going to let this take place on my watch,\u201d Joe Neguse, a Democrat who represents Boulder in the US House of Representatives, said Wednesday in a virtual address to the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Congress sets the federal budget and can direct the US government to fund NCAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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