NCAR, Alarmism, and the Federal Gravy Train

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has been called the “mothership” of climate science. So when reports claimed the Trump administration was planning to shut it down, the reaction was explosive—headlines screamed “destruction of knowledge” and “war on science.” 

But is that what’s actually happening? 

In this episode of Created to Reign, David R. Legates cuts through the hysteria to examine what the administration really said, what NCAR was created to do, and how decades of federal funding have fueled an entrenched climate alarmist narrative. Is science being silenced—or is ideological spending finally being challenged? 

This is a conversation about power, money, and whether climate research can survive without the federal gravy train.

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