Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder in December.RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty ImagesA leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to disassemble the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, one of the world’s top weather and climate research centers, which the admin views as a source of climate change alarmism.The computing center, which is slated to be turned over to an unspecified third party, runs weather and climate research models and is used by about 1,500 researchers from over 500 universities around the country. The work done on this supercomputer benefits the American people by leading to more accurate forecasts of extreme weather and climate events, aircraft...
