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They Didn’t Shut Down a Lab, They Shut Down the Warning Siren

How the Quiet Dismantling of NCAR Puts Public Safety, Accountability, and Disaster Preparedness at Risk

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General Azmundus
Dec 18, 2025
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NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research | Bolder CO

Most Americans will never hear the name NCAR. They won’t see it on a ballot. They won’t hear it mentioned in a presidential speech.

But when a tornado veers twenty miles east instead of west, when wildfire smoke suddenly blankets a town overnight, when a hurricane track tightens instead of sprawling…

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