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Dramatic budget cuts at NOAA could put weather forecasts in peril, lives in danger
Retired federal scientists warn Trump administration's proposed NOAA budget cuts could be costly and harm forecast accuracy
Via USA Today
The Trump administration's plan to dismantle the nation's atmospheric research programs could set U.S. forecasting back a generation or more, a cadre of retired federal hurricane, weather and ocean scientists warns.
The budget proposed by the White House for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is almost half what it was a year ago, and eliminates all funding for the agency's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the division that coordinates and conducts weather and climate research across the nation.
“It will stop all progress” in U.S. forecasting, said James Franklin, who retired in 2017 as chief of the National Hurricane Center’s forecast specialists.
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Project 2025 and Russell Vought Attack on US Science
Over five decades of scientific research, data, programs and national security progress put at risk
Re-read this sentence from the above cited USA Today article.
“The budget proposed by the White House for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is almost half what it was a year ago, and eliminates all funding for the agency's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the division that coordinates and conducts weather and climate research across the nation.”
Then look into Project 2025's with its iteration of Trump expressions of policy as proposed in the newly released 2026 US government budget.
Trump attacks on atmospheric science, earth science, climate science, monitoring of weather events (hurricanes, flooding, agriculture forecasting...) are stark in their retrogressive cuts.
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Project 2025:
Page 675: NOAA "has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity.” As a result, NOAA “should be broken up and downsized.”
Project 2025 demands agencies within NOAA to be vetted and scrubbed for any research that takes “sides” in the climate change debate, for example, reviewing the data of the National Hurricane Center and National Environmental Satellite Service to ensure it is “presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate” (p. 676)
Cut, chop, destroy is the goal. “Disband the preponderance of the climate-change research” of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, because “it is the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism” (p. 676)
“Ensure Appointees Agree with Administration Aims. Scientific agencies like NOAA are vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims if political appointees are not wholly in sync with Administration policy. Particular attention must be paid to appointments in this area.” (p. 677)
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Pathos for US Climate-Related Research & Programs
- Budget Decreases, Position Eliminations and Programs Terminations are sent to Congress
- Cuts in NOAA give a glimpse of the far-reaching and deeply damaging evisceration goals of the Trump administration
- Programs in Earth science, atmospheric science, ocean science, environmental protection, renewable energy, health, and more are terminated
Trump/Vought deliver a budget of terminations for climate research
- Programs in Earth science, atmospheric science, ocean science, environmental protection, renewable energy, health, and more are terminated
Many continue to ask 'Who is Russell Vought?' What is his role?
Russell T. Vought was the 42nd & is currently 44th Director of the US Office of Management and Budget.
He has a central role in shaping the Trump administration overall priorities, policies, budget, and direction of all federal agencies.
Vought launched the Center for Renewing America in 2021 after Trump was defeated for reelection in 2020.
He was a a principal author of Project 2025.
More Bkgrd: * https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term
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In its proposed 2026 budget just released (June 30, 2025),
NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs,
including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models
NOAA Under Attack, Trump Administration Cuts in the Announced 2026 Budget Are Deep and Extensive
The calamitous cuts include the elimination of all federally funded meteorological, oceanographic, and climate labs and non-profit cooperative research institutes across America. These world-class centers-of-excellence employ hundreds of the nation’s top weather and climate scientists and deploy key technology to help forecasters accurately predict the world’s most extreme weather. The history of many of the over two dozen labs and institutes slated for closure stretches back 50 to 75 years...
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