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Trump pulls plug on UK research into air pollution and global warming
Scientists decry President's 'vandalism' of climate science as they lose access to data and collaborators
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. Professor Piers Forster, founding director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds, said the impact of “Trump 2.0” on the international science community is “far more significant” than the US President’s first term. Rachel Cauley, communications director at the White House said: “President Trump ran on defunding woke, weaponised, and wasteful government and his budget proudly does that by cutting funding for the Green New Scam, projects like ‘gender-responsive agricultural adaptation’ in Guatemala and Mexico, and ‘Equity Climate and Health’ workshops for ‘transgender women, and those who identify as non-binary’.
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