"The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder has now reportedly been targeted for dismantling - not for performance - but for political reasons. This comes directly on the heels of a demand that our Gov. Jared Polis pardon Tina Peters = a demand the governor lawfully refused. This should concern every American.
NCAR is not a regional institution it is a national and global scientific asset. Its research improves weather forecasting, disaster preparedness, wildfire and flood modeling, aviation safety, water management and national security planning. NCAR's work saves lives, reduces economic losses from extreme weather, and provides critical data relied upon by U.S. allies around the world.
Weakening or dismantling NCAR would have consequences far beyond Colorado. It would degrade disaster response, undermine U.S. scientific leadership, and weaken international cooperation at a time when shared data and modeling are essential for public safety and security. It would also drive scientific talent out of the United States.
More troubling is the precedent this sets. Using federal power to punish a state by targeting a life-saving scientific institution is not governance. This is exactly how democratic erosion happens, quietly, vindictively, and dressed up as policy.
Scientific institutions exist to serve the public interests, not s political loyalty tests. NCAR is not a bargaining chip. It is a public safety resource, a national security asset and a pillar of American credibility abroad. Lawmakers at every level- regardless of party - should act now to protect NCAR and make clear that retaliation has no place in federal decision making". - Letter published in Denver Post, Dec. 19th..
We now know the craven wretchedness of the criminal Trump administration knows no bounds. They will readily destroy public safety as well as overall national security - if it suits their overseer Capt. Bonespurs. A report last week out of the WPost and WSJ said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions. The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate. Its research aircraft and sophisticated computer models of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are widely used in forecasting weather events and disasters around the country, and its scientists study a broad range of topics, including air pollution, ocean currents and global warming.
Make no mistake, this is a titanic, ill-conceived move and mostly based on retribution. Retribution for state lawmakers not pardoning the screwball MAGA roach Tina Peters. USAToday reported last week the dispute stems from the case of a former state election official in Colorado, Tina Peters; The despicable imp was convicted of multiple felonies after she gave Trump’s supporters unauthorized access to voting machines after the 2020 presidential election. Trump issued a performative pardon of Peters, but she remains behind bars. Why? Well, because federal or White House pardons have no effect for a felon who's violated STATE laws - especially voting laws.
But leave it to the reprehensible Trumper criminals and cockroaches to cloak the actual reason in bullshit bafflegab and misdirection common to political poltroons. Case in point: In a social media post announcing the move late last Tuesday, Russell 'Viper' Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, called the center “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country” and said that the federal government would be “breaking up” the institution.
Of course this is blatant Trumper Tommyrot. NCAR is now widely considered as a global leader in both weather and climate change research, with programs aimed at tracking severe weather events, modeling floods and understanding how solar activity affects the Earth’s atmosphere. As clearly expressed by the Denver Post letter writer at top of this post:
"NCAR's work saves lives, reduces economic losses from extreme weather, and provides critical data relied upon by U.S. allies around the world. Weakening or dismantling NCAR would have consequences far beyond Colorado. It would degrade disaster response, undermine U.S. scientific leadership, and weaken international cooperation at a time when shared data and modeling are essential for public safety and security. It would also drive scientific talent out of the United States."
She isn't just 'whistling Dixie'. Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, wrote on X that the institution is “quite literally our global mothership.” She said nearly everyone who researches climate and weather around the world has worked at or with NCAR. Also:
"It supports the scientists who fly into hurricanes, the meteorologists who develop new radar technology, the physicists who envision and code new weather models, and yes — the largest community climate model in the world,”
Adding:
“Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.”
Scientists, meteorologists and lawmakers said the move was an attack on critical scientific research and would harm the United States .The National Center for Atmospheric Research was originally founded to provide scientists studying Earth’s atmosphere with cutting-edge resources, such as supercomputers, that individual universities could not afford on their own.
The center’s research has often proved useful in unexpected places, such as when its studies of downdrafts in the lower atmosphere in the 1970s and 1980s led to development of wind shear detection systems around airports that helped address the cause of hundreds of aviation accidents during that era. That very capability came into play for me in August, 1985, when the Delta commercial jet I was on had to have landing delayed in Fairbanks, AK because of detected wind shear. We had to fly back to Anchorage then try again - successfully completing our landing some 3 1/2 hours later. This is a capacity the Trumpers now want to take a sledge hammer to.
To be sure, the Trumper EPA telegraphed its plans back in July, where in a July 30 post I noted the plan to " end EPA regulations on greenhouse gases emitted by vehicles from lightweight cars to heavy-duty trucks, while also undercutting rules that limit power plant emissions and control the release of methane by oil and gas companies."
Adding:
"The EPA’s new proposal - following the corrupt Supreme Court ruling earlier - argues that Congress, in the Clean Air Act, does not give the agency the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions."
Of course, Vought and his cabal putting the facility on the chopping block would also be an economic blow to Colorado. Traitor Trump has feuded with Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, in recent weeks, calling him a “weak and pathetic man” and accusing the governor with no evidence of being “run” by Venezuelan gang members. But would anyone with half a brain believe a screw loose orange twit who lost it in a blubbering 18 minute spiel to the nation last Wednesday? No, you'd want to see this guy committed. Or at least removed - for his own good and ours - under the 25th amendment.
This crucial lab is operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium of more than 100 universities, but the vast majority of its funding comes from the federal government, through hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from the National Science Foundation, a federal agency. So by taking over the NSF funding like these maggots have the Kennedy Center in D.C. (defiling the building with Trump's name added) they have kneecapped the state, and the global community that depends on accurate climate and weather analysis.
Hence, what the Trump terrorists have done now with this insane move is to put us directly in the maw of woeful catastrophe with no foresight warnings for countless weather or climate horrors. Conditions rapidly gathering for an F5 tornado in Kansas? Good luck! You're on your own.
Already, Record-setting temperatures and rainfall in the Arctic over the past year sped up the melting of permafrost and washed toxic minerals into more than 200 rivers across northern Alaska, threatening vital salmon runs, according to a report card issued by federal scientists.
The report, compiled by dozens of academic and government scientists and coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, documented rapid environmental changes from Norway’s Svalbard Island to the Greenland ice sheet and the tundra of northern Canada and Alaska.
Between October 2024 and September 2025, the period from when the ground begins to freeze until the end of summer, surface air temperatures were the warmest on record dating back 125 years, the report found.
Increased CO2 concentration poised to trigger the Runaway Greenhouse Effect? Expect no notice from UCAR. Just get ready to buckle up and prepare for decades of climate horrors thanks to the bevy of morons who elected Trump in 2024. Buying his lies about ending inflation (and the Ukraine war "the first day") hook, line and sinker.
See Also:
Trump moves to shut down NCAR, the Boulder climate research center
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Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level - The New York Times
Excerpt:
"Nearly 250 years after American colonists threw off their king, this is arguably the closest the country has come during a time of general peace to the centralized authority of a monarch. Mr. Trump takes it upon himself to reinterpret a constitutional amendment and to eviscerate agencies and departments created by Congress. He dictates to private institutions how to run their affairs. He sends troops into American streets and wages an unauthorized war against nonmilitary boats in the Caribbean. He openly uses law enforcement for what his own chief of staff calls “score settling” against his enemies, he dispenses pardons to favored allies and he equates criticism to sedition punishable by death."
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Climate Study Addition Of "57 Superhot" Days A Year Bears Further Analysis (Also Chat GPT's Input)
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by C.J. Polychroniou | December 21, 2025 - 5:44am | permalink
Since 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has required large industrial facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The data, which the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has been collecting since 2011, is essential in efforts to reduce emissions and provides vital information to the public about climate pollution from the largest U.S. polluters. However, the Trump EPA has proposed to put an end to greenhouse gas reporting by major polluters. This move is consistent with the Trump administration’s intent to make climate denial an official U.S. policy and restricts the public from the right to know. Subsequently, it will deprive communities from having access to a critical tool for holding pollutants accountable.
Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been using EPA data for many years now to rank the top U.S. polluters and disseminate vital information to the public. They publish their findings annually and have just released the 2025 edition of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Index. In the interview that follows, Michael Ash, professor of economics and public policy and co-director of PERI’s Corporate Toxics Information Project, shares the latest data on the top U.S. climate pollutants and discusses the consequences of the potential end of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program in the fight against climate change and climate justice.
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by Robert Reich | December 19, 2025 - 6:19am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
Today, after almost a year of Trump’s second regime, I want to talk about the challenge Trump and his regime pose to America’s moral purpose. The best way into the subject is, I think, to ask a few questions about what’s been happening, and then offer an answer to all of them.
Questions:
— Why does Trump’s latest National Security Strategy, released this month, make no distinction between despotism and democracy?
— Why is Trump abandoning Europe and siding with Putin over Ukraine?
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Brane Space: An Earth Day Warning: Climate Hell On Its Way No Thanks To Dotard Trump
