The Trump administration is moving to dismantle a world-class climate and weather research institution in Colorado, the latest salvo in President Donald Trump’s war on science.
The state-of-the-art research lab in Colorado studies Earth’s climate, including how to better predict severe weather, develop air quality forecasts, model flooding and predict droughts, study and predict wildfire behavior, and study how solar storms impact Earth.
The moves coincide with President Donald Trump’s promise to retaliate against Colorado if Gov. Jared Polis (D) didn’t pardon and release Tina Peters, a former county clerk serving nine years in prison for orchestrating a scheme to breach voting machine data driven by false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.