Science article
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-seeks-end-climate-research-premier-u-s-climate-agency
NYT article
The proposal from the Office of Management and Budget would abolish the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office at NOAA, one of the world’s premiere Earth sciences research centers.
A budget allocation of just over $170 million, down from about $485 million in 2024, would hobble science as varied as early warning systems for natural disasters, science education for students in kindergarten through high school, and the study of the Arctic, where temperatures have increased nearly four times as fast as the rest of the planet over the past four decades. “At this funding level, O.A.R. is eliminated as a line office,” the proposal states.
20·13 days ago
“Now we can prop up the hollowed out husk to exploit the integrity and legitimacy they’ve built up to more effectively trick people into plowing headlong off the cliff that is the status quo. Y’know, ‘run it like a business’!”