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"A Trump administration budget proposal for one of the nation’s preeminent
science agencies would slash funding for climate and earth systems research —
including shuttering four Colorado-based labs and ending federal funding for
two other research institutes here.
The proposed budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
would eliminate the agency’s research arm, the Office of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Research, according to a document made public on Monday.
In Colorado, the cuts would shutter major research hubs that have operated for
decades. The four NOAA labs at Boulder’s Earth System Research Laboratories
would close under the proposed budget: the Chemical Sciences Laboratory, the
Global Monitoring Laboratory, the Physical Sciences Laboratory and the Global
Systems Laboratory.
Established in 1957, the labs’ areas of focus include improving weather and
wildfire forecasting, studying air quality, conducting long-term monitoring of
greenhouse gases and ozone, as well as improving knowledge about water
availability and extreme weather.
Scientific research has long been a bedrock of Boulder’s cultural pride and
part of its economic vitality. Work from those federal labs directly influences
the private sector in Boulder and underpins the area’s innovation economy, said
John Tayer, the CEO of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce.
“For us, it is absolutely an economic impact that we’re going to feel in our
community,” he said. “But just as importantly is the attack on our sense of
pride in this work.”
The NOAA budget proposal is part of a wide-ranging effort by the Trump
administration to slash the size of government and ignore the impacts of
climate change. The proposal would cut funding for the agency by $1.8 billion
in the next fiscal year, a decrease of nearly a third from this year.
It would reduce federal spending on climate, weather and air chemistry research
from $362 million to zero, line items from the proposal show."
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