A Democratic congressman from Colorado is among those leading the opposition to plans by President Trump's administration to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
"I think the announcement is deeply dangerous. I think it is reckless. It's short-sighted and ultimately unlawful," said Rep. Joe Neguse, the U.S. House Assistant Minority Leader.
NCAR is located in Boulder and employs 830 people, according to Colorado lawmakers. White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought called it "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country." He said on Wednesday in a statement that a review of the center by the National Science Foundation is underway and suggested some people who work there will be moved to other federal departments.
Neguse, whose district includes Boulder, said the work done at NCAR in Colorado is "life-saving and critical for our national security." The congressman said he believes the move is an act of retaliation by the president against the state. Trump has been critical of Colorado's governor for not ending the state prison term of Tina Peters, the former county clerk and top election official in Mesa County.
Yet another example of Trump's determination to not only discredit scientific reality he doesn't like but retaliate against anyone who disagrees with him or refuses to pardon anyone who breaks the law on his behalf.
"It has nothing to do with the work that's being done every day at NCAR ... and everything to do with politics and the Trump administration's general lawlessness, to try to secure the release of Tina Peters, who had been convicted of state criminal offenses in Colorado," he said. "This is part and parcel, I think, of a strategy by the Trump administration to retaliate against the state of Colorado."
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“NCAR is quite literally our global mothership,” Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, said in a post on Bluesky. “Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.”
“Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet,” Hayhoe said.
“The Trump administration has put a bullseye on one of the United States’ premier weather and climate research and modeling centers, threatening to destroy decades of public investment,” Dr. Carlos Martinez, a senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement. “Without NCAR’s infrastructure and supercomputing abilities, many small colleges and universities wouldn’t be able to conduct climate or weather research with the latest models.”
"The research done at NCAR influences every piece of weather and climate prediction in the United States, enabling air quality monitoring, forecasting of droughts and extreme precipitation events, and improving hurricane intensity forecasts,” Martinez added.
Katharine Hayhoe is one of the premier scientists working on climate research, and she is far from a flaming liberal. She happens to be a devout,
Evangelical Christian. See also: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ka ... ajaxhist=0, in which she explains how climate would actually be cooling now, were it not for our dependence on fossil fuels. Instead, the climate is warming faster than ever before in human history.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
