Trump Admin Moves to Eliminate Climate Research Center: Report
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White House Plans to Break Up Weather Research Center
Will NCAR's closure end ideological corruption, or destroy vital climate research infrastructure?
Above: Director of the U.S. OMB Russell Vought on Oct. 21, 2025. Image credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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Pro-Trump narrative
Shutting down this politically captured institution ends the climate justice scam. NCAR has become intellectually and politically corrupt by prioritizing DEI ideology over scientific rigor. The organization has discriminated against straight, white, able-bodied males through explicit hiring preferences and wasted taxpayer dollars spreading woke ideology through bystander intervention training.
Anti-Trump narrative
Dismantling NCAR destroys decades of public investment in one of the world's premier weather and climate research institutions that enables critical forecasting of hurricanes, droughts and extreme weather events. This anti-science attack would leave Americans less prepared for climate dangers while decimating the infrastructure that small colleges and universities depend on for atmospheric research.
Metaculus Prediction
There's a 20% chance that before Jan. 1, 2100 there will be a five-year period with an average global temperature greater than 3.6˚C warmer than the 1861-1880 baseline, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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