The Trump administration wants to zero out climate research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to a newly released budget document.  The document calls for no funding to go to the agency’s climate laboratories or regional climate data and information. It also wants to zero out research at NOAA’s weather research program and weather laboratories, as well as its tornado and severe storm research. The budget document also calls for a shutdown of weather and climate laboratories around the country, including a lab in Mauna Loa, Hawaii, that tracks greenhouse gas emissions and another in Miami whose research includes hurricane studies. Overall, the document calls for reducing the agency’s full-time staff by 2,061 people when compared with fiscal 2024, a 17 percent cut.

Other climate research and weather forecasting news:

• Colorado Public Radio: Proposed NOAA budget would shutter Boulder’s world-class climate research laboratories
• USA Today: NOAA budget spells out plans to reduce spending and abandon climate research
• UPI: Nation’s top climate science assessments removed from federal websites
• Inside Climate News: An important archive of congressionally-mandated climate change reports just went dark
• Tucson Sentinel (Ariz.): Climate experts: Tucson’s monsoon storms could intensify, get harder to forecast