{"id":44231,"date":"2025-07-01T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44231"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:31:24","slug":"trump-administration-wants-to-axe-all-of-noaas-climate-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44231","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration wants to axe all of NOAA\u2019s climate research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration wants to zero out climate research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to a newly released&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-06\/NOAA FY26 Congressional Justification.pdf\"><u>budget document<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The document calls for no funding to go to the agency\u2019s climate laboratories or regional climate data and information. It also wants to zero out research at NOAA\u2019s weather research program and weather laboratories, as well as its tornado and severe storm research.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The budget document also calls for a shutdown of weather and climate laboratories around the country, including a lab in Mauna Loa, Hawaii, that tracks greenhouse gas emissions and another in Miami whose research includes hurricane studies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the document calls for reducing the agency\u2019s full-time staff by 2,061 people when compared with fiscal 2024, a 17 percent cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Dramatic cuts to climate research are not necessarily a surprise, as President Trump has repeatedly denied and downplayed the threat of climate change. His administration has sought to cut climate programs and roll back climate regulations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/5329529-epa-park-service-noaa-trump-budget-cuts\/\"><u>A previously released budget document<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;indicated that the administration wanted to eliminate NOAA\u2019s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, where much of its climate research is conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Typically, administration budgets are ignored, and ultimately what gets funded is up to Congress. However, administration budgets have taken on a particular significance in this administration as its Department of Government Efficiency seeks to cut staffing, particularly in offices that do not align with the administration\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/5380169-noaa-climate-change-research-trump-doge-funding-cuts\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration wants to zero out climate research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to a newly released&nbsp;budget document.&nbsp; The document calls for no funding to go to the agency\u2019s climate laboratories or regional climate data and information. It also wants to zero out research at NOAA\u2019s weather research program and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":44232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780],"tags":[33812,21480,1230],"class_list":["post-44231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livehood","tag-climate-research","tag-noaa","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44233,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44231\/revisions\/44233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}