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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/12/trump-dismantles-ncar-crowfoot-   
   california-impacts/   
      
   California officials and researchers across the country are sounding the   
   alarm about the Trump administration’s plans to dismember a global hub for   
   weather, wildfire and climate science: the Colorado-based National Center   
   for Atmospheric Research.   
      
   Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s director of the Office of   
   Management and Budget, posted Tuesday on the social media platform X that   
   the National Science Foundation will be “breaking up” the science   
   institution, which he called “one of the largest sources of climate   
   alarmism in the country.”   
      
   The move comes as Trump clashes with Colorado Governor Jared Polis. But   
   scientists warn that dismantling the federally-funded science center will   
   endanger Americans even beyond the hundreds whose jobs are now at risk in   
   Colorado.   
      
   “I’m alarmed. I’m worried. I’m upset. And I think we need to connect the   
   dots between attacks on science and what it means to the safety of   
   Americans,” California’s Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot told   
   CalMatters.   
      
   Vought said in his social media post that “any vital activities such as   
   weather research will be moved to another entity or location.”   
      
   But the research fields aren’t easily disentangled, and experts say   
   weather science can’t withstand the cuts to critical climate research. In   
   California, weather extremes highlight the high stakes as an atmospheric   
   river storm looms and the one-year anniversary of Los Angeles’ climate-   
   fueled catastrophic wildfires approaches.   
      
   State climatologist Michael Anderson said that the National Center for   
   Atmospheric Research has worked with California agencies in the past on   
   projects to improve precipitation predictions and snowpack modeling.   
      
   Losing the science center, he said, “will set the nation back in being   
   able to respond to extreme weather events.”   
      
   The research institution, often referred to as NCAR, is managed by a   
   nonprofit consortium of 120 colleges and universities. It shares tools   
   including aircraft and supercomputers, as well as expertise and research   
   vital to understanding and predicting wildfire behavior, smoke exposure,   
   storms, floods and drought — with implications for public safety,   
   agriculture and more.   
      
   “Gutting NCAR is putting American lives and property at higher risk of   
   fire, because we’re not going to have the information that we need in   
   order to really understand it and address how fires are increasing in a   
   warming world,” said Jennifer Balch, a preeminent fire scientist at the   
   University of Colorado Boulder, whose own work has investigated California   
   and other Western states’ increasingly devastating wildfires.   
      
   Balch spoke as high fire-risk weather in December forced a power shutoff   
   to her Colorado neighborhood, leaving her family to cook their breakfast   
   on the grill.   
      
   “Undercutting our science community like this is only going to hurt   
   Americans,” Balch said.   
      
   Craig Clements, chair of the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science   
   at San José State University, said that the next generation of scientists   
   would lose vital training opportunities if the research center were   
   dismantled.   
      
   “They get to have hands-on experience with state of the art research,   
   aircraft, facilities and researchers,” he said.   
      
   Clements said he was in shock that this was even being proposed. “How are   
   they going to do this? Is this really going to happen?” he said. “It’s   
   going to devastate atmospheric science research worldwide — not just   
   California, not just the U.S. It is the leading atmospheric science   
   institution in the world.”   
      
   Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office called this research “life saving” in a news   
   release Friday.   
      
   “Unfortunately for the American people, Trump’s Budget Director, Russell   
   Vought — also known as  “a right-wing absolute zealot”— is targeting the   
   Center to line the pockets of Big Oil,” the statement said. “Despite what   
   the Trump administration hopes, extreme weather does not take the day   
   off.”   
      
   Crowfoot told CalMatters that the move is just one more example of the   
   Trump administration attacking the science that keeps Californians safe.   
      
   “One that had us scrambling this fall was cuts to the federal funding for   
   the California Nevada River Forecast Center,” Crowfoot said. California’s   
   emergency storm and flood efforts rely on the forecast center to guide   
   decisions such as where to pre-position emergency rescue teams.   
      
   Crowfoot said there were such large personnel cuts that the state has been   
   racing to fill the gaps as the rainy season takes hold. Gutting the   
   atmospheric research center, he said, will force a similar scramble as   
   universities and others try to maintain data, tools and expertise in its   
   absence.   
      
   “Federal data and science and information is critical. What we’re   
   experiencing across the country is this alarming adjustment to the loss of   
   this information — and it’s happening on a weekly basis,” Crowfoot said.   
      
      
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