The sheer scale of Trump’s rampage on important social policy continues at pace with the destruction of climate research…
Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate research
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the research arm of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, close all weather and climate labs, and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices, according to internal documents obtained by CNN.
The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and it would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis.
A source familiar with the plan told CNN that while the draft budget for fiscal year 2026 will have to be approved by Congress, it is also being distributed to the agency now as guidance on how to slash its current operating budget for the agency, which means the cuts could be implemented this year.
What it targets: The budget proposal eliminates NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office and stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs. Overall, it cuts the funding for programs currently under the research office by roughly 75%.
The proposed budget also severely defunds other key offices of NOAA, such as the National Ocean Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, and transfers most of the fisheries service functions to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which sits under the Interior Department. (NOAA currently is housed within the US Commerce Department).
The internal Trump administration document says the National Marine Fisheries Service “should prioritize permitting” to “unleash American energy” from activities like offshore oil drilling.
…when you are directly amputating science that is warning you off climate change for the sheer gleeful revenge of it, you know Trump and his MAGA fascists have taken over the library and are burning the books!
This is what Atla Network is pushing for, that is what the Political Right in NZ area pushing for.
They are dooming us on a burning planet.
“First, Trump fascinated the fools. Then, Trump muzzled the intelligent”.
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He was voted in by the American people to break shit and breaking shit he is.
There is a fine line between climate change “belief” and cultism. Science has been politicized, in the bin it goes.
What utter rubbish. The cultism is about the interests of those that stand to lose money through taking action. The day this arsehole was missed by that bullet was a sad day for everyone
He won the popular vote Wheel, so less than half of US would celebrate.
You should know what being in the minority feels like, it suits you, well it means your shoulder chip gets a companion on the other shoulder, it’s lovely to be balanced eh? Lol
I couldn’t give a toss about how much of the vote he won. The fact that you support this fascist arsehole indicates you have issues. You sound like you are only half a Mowbray. No admission of ‘wow he really is f’ing delusional’.
I agree.
But the maga crowd would have replaced him with some other uneducated 12 year old mindset clown they could bullshit and control.
Mary Trump’s Book….’Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man’…is proving to be scarily accurate and very profound.
Will Trump last 4 years…i doubt it.
This lunacy will come back to bite the U.S. bigtime.
Yes what MARY has to say is illuminating.
” Trump’s trashing of climate change agencies will doom the planet ”
But only if we let him.
Relocate all Israeli’s to the U$A then fence them in. Sorted.
I can just see the Mexican government running down refugee U$A citizens as they climber over the wall.
Go here. See the future.
Dad! Ya dropped ya cell phone!
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A top climate change scientist said we were already doomed 2 years ago. So I don’t understand why people are still worried about what has already happened.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210520015841/https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1009757391515156480
You don’t understand lots of things Nitrium.
Even your link leads nowhere.
The Green movement has the same message to the 3rd World poor as the Catholic Church had to 14th Century peasants
“Live with your bad water, preventable diseases, poor nutrition in your hovels because the promised land is coming.”