Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/14/trump-cancels-greenhouse-gas-laboratory-lease/

Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
March 14, 2025 at 2:28 p.m. EDT
By Scott Dance

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Washington Post.

The Global Monitoring Laboratory in Hilo, Hawaii, is on a list of dozens of National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration facilities whose leases are set to expire later this year. The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data from atop a volcano to produce the famed Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. The observatory itself is not on the list of potential closures, but staff in the Hilo lab work to maintain it, according to the lab’s website.

Data collected from the observatory have shown global carbon dioxide levels — the most significant driver behind record planetary warming — are rising faster than ever recorded. Trump has been dismissive of that data and the consensus around climate change, and his allies who wrote the policy playbook Project 2025 proposed dismantling NOAA, calling it a source of climate alarmism.

The Hawaii lab is one of several NOAA facilities on the list whose lease termination has not been previously reported, as the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service announce massive cuts to government real estate and personnel.

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Evidently the Nazi parasite doesn't need climate change to sell his cars anymore