John Farley
Supporter
Unconfirmed report from a Denver TV station. Saw it on the news tonight. Hope it is not true.
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NCAR to be closed?
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Randy Zipser
EF4
John, I didn't see your post above before making my latest post, my apology! However, perhaps we know a little more information now than was available at the time of your post above. RZ
John Farley
Supporter
Thanks, Randy. The NBC story you linked is pretty similar to the original one I posted - the Denver TV station is NBC, so I am guessing the network largely picked up the story from the local report. Mods, perhaps these threads can be combined?
Randy Zipser
EF4
Yes, I agree; please put it all under this thread. Admins, I hope you don't see my remarks below as "too political" but, rather, fair game for discussion with ST readers.
Concerning the content of this whole matter, however, I am really pissed at the ill-thought-out "reasoning" and short-sightedness of the administration's actions. This matter "really hits close to home" for me because both the National Science Foundation and UCAR were sources for funding of much of my graduate research at NSSL over fifty years ago. You just don't "erase" out of existence something with that kind of long-standing history because you think it's run by a nest of "left-wing lunatics" (which is purely a present-day political bias and completely without merit or factual evidence). When it comes to carrying on apolitical science (for scientific sake!), is anything really sacred or untouchable anymore by people who have no knowledge whatsoever about the profession(s) they are so un-caringly destroying?
DOGE was bad enough as far as ill-informed people in high places of power intruding into science...like weather and climate science. Enough is enough already! These kinds of mistakes will be extremely difficult to reverse in the future, and scientific advancement may irreparably suffer as a result, given the enormous costs involved to carry out such research.
Concerning the content of this whole matter, however, I am really pissed at the ill-thought-out "reasoning" and short-sightedness of the administration's actions. This matter "really hits close to home" for me because both the National Science Foundation and UCAR were sources for funding of much of my graduate research at NSSL over fifty years ago. You just don't "erase" out of existence something with that kind of long-standing history because you think it's run by a nest of "left-wing lunatics" (which is purely a present-day political bias and completely without merit or factual evidence). When it comes to carrying on apolitical science (for scientific sake!), is anything really sacred or untouchable anymore by people who have no knowledge whatsoever about the profession(s) they are so un-caringly destroying?
DOGE was bad enough as far as ill-informed people in high places of power intruding into science...like weather and climate science. Enough is enough already! These kinds of mistakes will be extremely difficult to reverse in the future, and scientific advancement may irreparably suffer as a result, given the enormous costs involved to carry out such research.
Warren Faidley
Supporter
I do want their building as my secret chase headquarters. Seriously... WTF.
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