The Office of Management and Budget is cutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s research budget. The funds would be sliced from last year’s $485 million to $l70 million.
This would affect programs such as the early warning systems for natural disasters, scientific education for students, and the study of the Arctic temperatures. We would lose research abilities in ocean and weather data. We would lose research into climate science.
Grants that would fund species recovery and habitat conservation would be eliminated. The Space Weather Prediction Center would be shifted to the Department of Homeland Security.
The proposal is part of the effort, to quote the report, of “eliminating the federal government’s support of woke ideology.” It is also likely to be an attempt to privatize the Weather Service.
Every time I think it can’t get worse, it gets worse.
Info for this post is from Austyn Gaffney, “Plan Calls for End to NOAA’s Research,” New York Times, (Apr. 13, 2025), p. 25.
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