Trump pulls plug on UK research into air pollution and global warming
Trump pulls plug on UK research into air pollution and global warming
Posted by Wagamaga
Trump pulls plug on UK research into air pollution and global warming
Trump pulls plug on UK research into air pollution and global warming
Posted by Wagamaga
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UK-based climate scientists have had research projects cancelled and lost access to crucial data as a result of Donald Trump’s sweeping funding cuts.
US institutions such as Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which play a similar role to the Met Office, are having billions cut from their budget by the US President.
The Trump administration has also cancelled billions of dollars worth of research grants, including funding for climate research at US universities.
The i Paper has spoken to researchers based at universities across the UK who say they have been impacted by the loss of US collaborators and access to vital data sources.
Laura Wilcox, a professor at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) in the University of Reading, has lost access to a dataset called AirNow, which records pollution in cities across the world using sensors on the top of over 80 US embassies and consulates.
The data, which has been published for over 15 years, was taken offline in March, with the US state department citing “budget constraints”.
The old “if we don’t measure it it’s not happening” approach. Brilliant.
History is not going to look back kindly upon this orange buffoon.
The whole world is going to know him for generations as someone that needlessly kneecapped progress in pursuit of his own demented greed.
It’s like they know something we don’t ( oh hold on its already to late ) /s
I will never not be angry at this rapist shit stain and his dumb fuck supporters.
When is the UK going to realise that Trump and the States in general are not our friends, and yet we bend over for them at every turn.
I cant be remembered poorly if there’s no future generations to remember me, or if there are then I hope the cave paintings get the right shade of orange shit.
-trump
The same Trump that is golfing whilst the search goes on for victims of another extreme weather event in the country? Wonder why there are so many of them currently? Guess we’ll never know if we don’t research it!!
Pathetic. Watching western powers cripple themselves in an attempt to appease the avarice of their corporate masters.
Corporate masters shitting themselves in ivory towers, petrified of change, spending billions on media propaganda, instead of research that could put them at the front of the technological changes needed.
Pathetic.
Wait, why is the US funding (or otherwise enabling) a UK project?
The US is not required to give money to foreign bodies, especially when it’s going out of its way to save money.
Yet more angry Brits furious that Amercia isnt paying them millions to explain the modern art of urinal photographs to Afghan fighters
Why does the orange prick have any say about what the UK does?
It’s not, we had shared access to data they collected.
At this point surely international governments should be declaring an idiot is running the asylum. Diplomacy is one thing but blatant ignoral of incompetence and illegal activity is sickening.
Part of me regularly wants to go, good. The sooner our stupid species dies of its own arrogance, the better. But most of the time, I still like to think there’s hope.
Anecdotally, I work in a university research group focussed on net zero technologies. Before Trump won, a number of us were invited to submit articles in a special issue for a US-based journal. We submitted our papers a few months after he assumed office, but not a single one of the several papers submitted were accepted. Part of me wonders if Trump’s climate skepticism and scientific censorship agenda played a part in this.
I cannot wait until trump fucks off. I just feel sorry for the next person that has to undo all this shit.
Nobel Prize nominee Trump does yet another thing based on profit at the expense of the world
No need to focus on problems. Lets just build an alligator alcatraz.
Pay wall. But like, we aren’t “Airstrip one” yet, why’s the US got any say over here?