… Since Trump returned to the White House in January, his administration has fired or let go hundreds of climate and weather scientists — and cut ties to hundreds more who work in academia or the private sector. His team has eliminated major climate programs, frozen or cut grants for climate research and moved to shutter EPA’s greenhouse gas reporting program. The Trump administration has slow-walked climate-related contracts — including one for the upkeep of two polar weather satellites. And it’s begun to wall off the United States from international climate cooperation. … (H)is budget strategy calls for even deeper cuts in the months and years ahead. That includes billions of dollars in cuts to climate and weather research at NOAA and NASA, widely considered two of the world’s top science agencies. All told, it’s an unprecedented assault on humanity’s understanding of how global warming is transforming the planet, scientists say. 

Other climate and weather research news:

• Axios San Francisco: Blog: California could get hit hardest by Trump’s NASA budget cuts
• Boston University School of Public Health: Blog: Loss of NOAA, FEMA expertise ‘will be really difficult to rebuild’
• Space News: Members of Congress want White House to quickly nominate new NASA administrator