EU governments prepare to go it alone on some data after Trump cuts.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/europe-is-breaking-its-reliance-american-science-2025-08-01/#:~:text=BRUSSELS%2FWASHINGTON%2FBERLIN%2C%20August,change%20and%20weather%20extremes%2C%20according
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Good for them. If our own administration won’t value science or ‘the science,’ why should anyone else (as it pertains to data coming out of the US anyway)? Data on sea-level rise and extreme weather events put at risk by cuts to NOAA? Does Trump think if he just ignores it, it’ll go away?
Europe’s pivot is great! Diversifying sources of climate and weather data reduces the risk of any single country throttling access or politicizing science. When knowledge is decentralized, it becomes harder to suppress, easier to verify, and more resilient to ideological whiplash. It’s sad when anti-American means pro-stability.
Good. Plus, we want our maligned researchers in Europe, not China. EU countries better not waste our brain drain.
Good, now they can do the medical research and we can give free healthcare.
What reliance on American science in the first place? Maybe that was the case during the Cold War, when Europe was still recovering from WW2.