The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) laboratory was founded in 1960 at the base of the Rocky Mountains to conduct research and educate future scientists.

Climate scientists know NCAR as one of the largest weather-and-climate-research institutions in the world; Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, described it as “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.

Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and

What happens to permitting, design assumptions and risk models if the federal research backbone behind U.S. weather forecasting, NCAR, is broken apart?