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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO DISMANTLE ONE OF WORLD’S MOST VITAL CLIMATE
RESEARCH CENTERS  
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Robert Tait
December 17, 2025
The Guardian
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_ Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would
put ‘public safety at risk’ _

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder,
Colorado., Photo by NCAR

 

The Trump administration
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up a research center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate
research after accusing it of spreading “alarmism” about climate
change.

Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office and
management budget, said the National Center for Atmospheric Research
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dismantled under the supervision of the National Science Foundation.

“This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in
the country,” he wrote
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media post. “A comprehensive review is underway & any vital
activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or
location.”

The announcement was the latest in a series of climate-sceptic moves
by the administration, which has vowed to eliminate what it calls
“green new scam research activities”.

It drew fierce condemnation from climate experts, who said the
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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
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which first reported the story, that the facility was “a crown jewel
of the US scientific enterprise and deserves to be improved not
shuttered”.

He added: “If 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.”

The move was also criticised by Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis,
who said it put “public safety at risk”.

“Climate change is real, but the work of NCAR goes far beyond
climate science,” he said
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“NCAR delivers data around severe weather events like fires and
floods that help our country save lives and property, and prevent
devastation for families.”

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’s
frequent characterisations of climate change as a “con job” or a
“hoax”.

The White House has accused the centre of following a “woke
direction” 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 “make the sciences more welcoming, inclusive, and
justice-centered”, as well as research into wind turbines, an
innovation that Trump has repeatedly denounced.

The administration has already proposed
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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.

_Robert Tait is political correspondent for Guardian US, based in
Washington DC. He was previously the Guardian's correspondent in the
Czech Republic, Iran and Turkey_

 
 

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