The Trump administration has set NOAA on “non-science trajectory”, warn the workers | Trump Administration

The Trump Administration If one of the most important scientific authorities in the US federal government has sentenced a “non-scientific path”, the workers who derail decades of research and the United States are “not breathable and not breathable that cannot be drinkable”.

Workers and scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warn of the drastic effects of cuts in the agency on science, research and efforts to protect natural resources.

“The problems are still there. We still have harmful algae flowers, we still have fishing that burn together what they cannot swim. These problems do not disappear because we have released all people who tried to solve a problem,” said a NOAA veteran who wanted to remain anonymous due to fear of retribution. “How do you save your arms and legs or feet and hands when the core dies?”

The long -time research scientist with more than 20 years at Noaa has had an early retirement. “I left because it was just so demoralizing and fearful and scary,” they said.

Trump administration officers are seek To abolish the Department of Scientific Research in the NOAA, the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) office. It is the latest a number of cuts in the agency with which the second Trump administration began 12,000 employees All over the world, including more than 6,700 engineers and scientists.

The cuts disrupt the collection of data records, including recordings of global temperatures in the air and ocean, and that data cannot be replaced, said the NOAA veteran.

The breakdown of NOAA would affect the work in many areas, solutions to combat harmful algae and the improvement of sustainable fishing to work on new medication and industrial products and to collect information for disaster preparation.

“We can look at other countries that make these mistakes active in which they are not breathable and water that cannot be drinked,” they said. “I think it’s done. I think that’s done. The enemies are in the goal. I see no indication that someone stops it. They just let it burn. To be honest, I don’t understand how science will recover.”

More than 800 The agency’s probation helper were released, reinstated and then packed this month. Have employees reported Your shots and your health insurance canceled, even though the premiums were removed from their salary checks.

Rachel Brittin worked as a deputy director of external affairs in the NOAA before being released, then deployed again and then released again as a probationary employee, with only a few months left on her two -year probation.

“The whole situation is a chaos,” she said. “How will NOAA be able to keep up with the services it offers? I don’t know. I don’t know how this will happen, but it is very scary for me. Loss of someone in NOAA is directly connected to services that are lost by each individual in the United States.”

Agency contractor Vacation Like all NOAA contracts over 100,000 US dollars must be now approved By Trump’s Minister of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

Doge has planned 31 offices and build rental contracts in the NOAA for termination in the USA. Almost 4 million US dollars for the financing of Princeton University was as part of a cooperative agreement with NOAA cancelled on April 8th.

Fourteen NOAA date services for earthquakes, sea, coastal and muzzle science at goods planned More than twice as many for decommissioning as in 2024.

Four regional climate centers that Weather analysis and data and data for 21 countries in the USA provide grew After facts in the financing, the remaining two covered the United States on the set Face A Finance Rest in June.

A reduction in the power plan to cut additional 10% The agency’s workforce is expected and at least several hundred workers have taken Voluntary buyouts or early retirement According to Noaa workers who were interviewed by the Guardian, Noaa and the Ministry of Commerce have not disclosed the figures.

“It seems to be clear that the measures taken have deliberately reduced our ability to do our work,” said a NOAA scientist who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. “You are not expected to do something.”

They said due to the surf, early retirement and resignations, scientific research teams in the agency about specialist knowledge that cannot be replaced.

“We crawl,” they added. “We find workarounds, but it is getting more and more difficult.”

Marty Kardos, a molecular geneticist in the Northwest Fisheries Science Center of the NOAA, decided to withdraw with the workers after the violations of her collective agreement by the agency, had to be forced to move from Montana to Seattle in a week.

“The agency is located on a non -scientific trajectory,” said Kardos in a personal quality. “All research plans we have made in the coming years are outside the window. Morality is extremely bad.”

The wear and tear of scientists and management at NOAA undermines the ability of the agency to manage fishing sustainably and to identify and restore those at risk, he said.

“The agency is essentially hostile to its mission and its employees,” added Kardos. “Much of it seems to be related to the deregulation Types of sea And one way to avoid the action without lifting it up is to get rid of the scientists who help to get rid of the implementation. “

The cuts come as the so -called “Department of Government Efficiency” (Doge) and the Trump Administration have installed allies in key positions at the agency.

Neil JacobsThe Trump candidate for the NOAA administrator and the reigning director NOAA in the first Trump administration still has to be confirmed. Jacobs was involved “Sharpiegate” -A bizarre incident from 2019, when the White House was accused of having changed a NOAA map of the predicted path of the Hurrikan Dorian with a black marker to support Trump’s wrong demands that the Florida-bound storm would also meet Alabama.

An employee from Dogy, Bryton Shang, announced This month he was appointed the senior consultant of the NOAA administrator. Shang was one of Doge’s two employees who flew After Los Angeles during the forest fires in January and tried to open a large water pump system in California.

Erik Noble, named Trump’s “Eyes and Ears” in Noaa is during his first administration is back at the agency as deputy deputy secretary for oceans and atmosphere and checks contracts at the agency Keegan McLaughlinA special assistant in the trade department and former intern of the Trump campaign 2024.

Noaa was one Goal of project 2025The conservative roadmap for a second Trump management. In this document, the agency was described as “one of the main drivers of the alarm industry of climate change”.

“Understanding things makes us make decisions that can get us on a track to get better. If you know that bad news will not create the bad news. You can be willing to take measures with which you can avoid the worst consequences,” added the NOAA scientist from OAR to the Trump representative and the authority that you will receive about scientific decisions.

“If we pretend that our resources are inexhaustible, they don’t make them inexhaustible,” they added. “I don’t think people understand the arrogance of thinking:” Hey, I think I understand that even though I know nothing about it. “This whole opposite, I don’t understand your personal health.

Noaa and the Ministry of Commerce did not respond to several inquiries about comments.