{"id":134944,"date":"2026-02-16T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134944\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:54:07","slug":"trump-administration-to-shutter-major-u-s-weather-research-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134944\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration to shutter major U.S. weather research facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AENTMRSMWVAJBPFNVMANOYIS7I\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 President Donald Trump is once again jeopardizing climate research by shuttering one of the world\u2019s foremost scientific institutions in Boulder, Colorado. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PCWZVBU65JCB3DZRYE3BWSSONU\">The National Center for Atmospheric Research uses a supercomputer that \u201cruns weather and climate research models and is used by about 1,500 researchers from over 500 universities around the country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/13\/weather\/trump-colorado-lab-ncar-supercomputer-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to CNN.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TAIMA2I2KNA47AB2PBB6CJIILU\">Under Trump\u2019s direction, the computer center is being given to \u201ca third-party operator,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/transitioning-ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the U.S. National Science Foundation announced.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YLPWZPQMJ5DDDIVQ62RTH5BYMY\">The projections performed by this computer help millions of Americans prepare for extreme weather, turbulence, and other weather phenomena. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HRQM2YVVTBAFVMRN7LIQL27CAU\">The supercomputer\u2019s transition away from this facility threatens accuracy in predicting weather models, which trickle down into the daily forecast apps used by Americans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6FDLTITIDFFQLE23MREZKIEM7U\">It is not clear when this transfer will go into effect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HC2AP35JJNFDLFJ5CYFFKB3CVU\">The Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/russvought\/status\/2001099488774033692?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said on X in December 2025<\/a>, the following: \u201cThe National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway &amp; any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FWCVXRZVBRFGFKSQO3OVDGW46Q\">Trump and his administration dismiss environmental concerns consistently: pushing the United States away from sustainable energy alternatives and back towards fossil fuels; pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement for the second time; lowering Environmental Protection Agency expectations for companies, and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"35BXQOS6I5GA5AE47GOMCMYX5Q\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucs.org\/rachel-cleetus\/one-year-of-the-trump-administrations-all-out-assault-on-climate-and-clean-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Union of Concerned Scientists issued a statement<\/a> saying that according to Columbia University\u2019s Sabin Center\u2019s Climate Backtracker, \u201cthe Trump administration has taken nearly 300 actions to scale back or halt climate and clean energy progress\u201d as of Jan. 14. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 President Donald Trump is once again jeopardizing climate research by shuttering one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-134944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}