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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado (www.usatoday.com)
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Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Trump officials have circled the federally funded research institution, based in Boulder, Colorado, as a hub for "federal climate alarmism" after it was established decades earlier in 1960 for research in atmospheric chemistry and physical meteorology.

The administration plans to identify and eliminate what it calls "green new scam research activities" during an upcoming review of the center, according to the White House, while "vital functions" such as weather modeling and supercomputing will be moved to another entity or location. The White House billed the restructuring as a return to the NCAR's original focus.

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[–] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's retribution for Colorado not giving Trump Tina Peters, at least in part

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    • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    One day, if educated people still exist, studies will show that Trump's actions led to the deaths of millions.

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    • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    I doubt Trump has any idea what is going on at all or would care if he did. It's one of his circulating shitheads killing it.

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    If only Trump did this with his health issues. If he doesn't go to a doctor it's only a small pain that he's feeling, not a disease...

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    [–] 42 points 10 months ago* (14 children)

    They just seem to want to destroy everything. Most of these assholes will be long gone. The young will be left with the major consequences.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    These old fucks should be told the future does not belong to them.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Maybe that's why they're doing this. They're a bunch of immature children who were never taught to share or get along with others and they don't want anyone else to have better things than they do. Maybe they've finally come to terms with the fact that they're going to die so they're making sure that the world they leave behind is fucked. If they can't have a future, we can't either.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    There is not enough outrage. There will be no new drugs, no new vaccines, no new therapies we can't even imagine yet.

    The only career choice for brilliant students is head to Wall Street and steal money.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Disregarding politics and the current state of the world, I think those new generations could benefit from a clean slate and maybe rebuild better than the previous generations. The world is currently a pretty dirty place with most people having questionable motivations due to "profit". Even before trump arrived on the scene. Trump is just a puppet, albeit an evil one, who exposed all of the grift and tried to burn everything down around him for his own self-aggrandizement. There is no "we the people" under his questionable leadership.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Billionaire immortality would be the best thing to happen to the world.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Altered Carbon is a great little sci-fi show that explores what might happen in such a scenario. According to the writer, the slow accumulation of money making money would trend to infinite, leaving a world that makes what we have now look like an egalitarian utopia by comparison.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    what

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Because then they would have to live in it, and would theoretically stop burning it down.

    I don't know if "best" feels right, but I can see the upside. Of course, then they'd be immortal overlords, and that probably wouldn't go well either.

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    This locks in the coming collapse by destroying the possibility of evolving our responses to the climate crisis intelligently and according to real world data. I would say buckle up, but I am not sure how much a seat belt is going to do for any of us at this point but convey a dangerous and false sense that things will work out ok in the end.

    What a shithole country I live in.

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    [–] 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    The right ring hate for climate change is truly remarkable, and spread to my family in recent years.

    I honestly don’t get it. Ignoring it is one thing, but viewing it as an actively malicious, hysterical “belief” that should be mocked? Like, if they’re watching a nature documentary and it’s brought up (cause, you know, they’re literally conservationists filming this stuff in real time; how could they not bring it up?), they make these crude, mocking jokes about it.

    And I’m talking about doctors and other science believing, educated professionals.

    It’s… weird.

    And it’s getting worse.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago

    It's their media. It's Newsmax, Fox, right wing TikTok, X.

    The American Petroleum Institute has owned media that push their narrative for more than 4 decades. They need to pay for the crimes they've committed to destroy the world we live in. You should read The Ministry for the Future.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    its a decades in the making by right wing/oil propaganda, the industry backed "eco-protestors that are defacing public properties" were primarly funded by oil/gas industry in order to turn the public against protesting. just like they did with funding "companies that tell you to buy thier eco-friendly products, so they dont have to reduce thier own co2 emissions or lower thier carbon footprint.

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    • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    How bout we dismantle this administration instead?

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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    If there is one thing that bloated child rapist loves is denial of reality

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    [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    @silence7 Bad, but I’m only surprised it took this long:leading climate research site… in Blue state.I’ve visited NCAR twice, sigh.

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    [Removed by Reddit]

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    as industries are trying to move towards renewables, he wants to sustain the oil industry indefenitely.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Fascists gonna fascism

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