Trump Takes Aim at Atmospheric Science

Boulder, December 2025. Photo: Ben Rosenfled.

One has to be roasting in Boulder, CO on an unseasonably hot winter day as I presently am (what is “unseasonal” any more), as I currently am, to fully appreciate the outrageous absurdity of dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (“NCAR”) as Trump is planning to do.

NCAR is the birthplace of nearly 60 years of scientific discovery. NCAR scientists built computer models of the individual components of Earth’s climate system.