Subject: Trump to End Climate Research at NOAA
Science is reporting this afternoon that the Trump administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. The document indicates the White House is ready to ask Congress to eliminate NOAA’s climate research centers and cut hundreds of federal and academic climate scientists who track and study human-driven global warming.

The administration is also preparing to ask for deep cuts to NASA’s science programs, according to media reports today.

The administration’s plan would “eliminate all funding for climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes,” according to the document. Currently, NOAA operates 10 research labs around the country: ocean research centers in Florida and Washington state, five atmospheric science labs in Boulder, Colorado, and Maryland, and a severe storm lab in Oklahoma. It also operates the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in New Jersey as well as a lab in Michigan devoted to the Great Lakes.

But, tax cuts, dontchaknow.

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