Bummer: Trump Admin Closes Climate (scam) Adaptation Centers

Good. Maybe take the money and use it for homeless veterans

Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers

Tracking bird populations after hurricanes. Mapping the risk of megafires across the Midwest. Identifying less expensive ways to battle invasive plants. Preparing communities’ stormwater drains against intense flooding.

A third of the nation’s offices that do this work — known as the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers — are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Tuesday because of a lack of funds, according to employees and an announcement by one of the closing centers.

The potential shuttering of the South Central, Northeast and Pacific Islands centers, which collectively cover about one-third of the U.S. population and are funded under the Interior Department, would hamper projects aimed to help people, wildlife, land and water adapt to a changing climate locally. Their demise is unconnected to a possible federal shutdown: Instead, employees say, Interior Department officials have not approved paperwork that would help fund them for another five years.

“We’re not willing to just drop everything and walk away,” said Bethany Bradley, the co-director of the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and a University of Massachusetts professor. “But the reality is we can’t do this for free and pay our [research] students nothing.”

So, get private funding. The reality is that many of these projects are worthwhile, however, they decided to make the climate scam the primary concern, and this is the be all end all. If they weren’t all climate cult and just did what they were supposed to do the Trump admin wouldn’t have noticed.

In recent weeks, federal workers across all adaptation centers have also been unable to spend money on traveling, publishing papers or funding new projects without approval.

Why are they traveling? Because we all know this is by using fossil fuels. Just stay on your turf and do your job.

The South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center confirmed last week that it and the two other centers were on the brink of losing federal backing. The center said in an announcement on its website Thursday that beginning Wednesday, it “will fully transition to minimal operations” until more federal funding is acquired.

Might be waiting a while for that. Too bad.