‘A Weird Way of Making America Great’: Trump NOAA Purge Targets Scientists Working on Key Climate Models

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By Cristen Hemingway JaynesMar 5, 2025, 10:38 pm336 ptsTop
Layoffs by the Trump administration at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reached the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), a small but important institute that is responsible for climate models the world relies on. Kai-Yuan Cheng, an atmospheric scientist who was notified…

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