National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says NYT | Top Stories By: Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer and Jack Healy 18 December 2025 at 03:57 Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.” © Caine Delacy for The New York TimesNational Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate since its founding in 1960.