Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
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The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

NCAR is not only one of the leaders in climate science, but is an exceptionally important institution for space weather and upper atmosphere modeling. This will be an enormous loss for the scientific community. As someone in the atmospheric and space science community, this decision will have devastating consequences for decades to come.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Altered Carbon is a great little sci-fi show that explores what might happen in such a scenario. According to the writer, the slow accumulation of money making money would trend to infinite, leaving a world that makes what we have now look like an egalitarian utopia by comparison.

      • Infinite@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Because then they would have to live in it, and would theoretically stop burning it down.

        I don’t know if “best” feels right, but I can see the upside. Of course, then they’d be immortal overlords, and that probably wouldn’t go well either.

        • Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I’d rather get rid of billionaires, but them having to live in the hellscape they are creating would be nice, yeah.