President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Science Foundation said last summer that global warming research would continue to be an agency priority if Trump were reelected because “the Googles of climate should be in the United States.”
That prediction from then-NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan seems to have widely missed the mark.
Since returning to power, Trump has pulled funding from at least 60 climate-related research projects, according to a spreadsheet of canceled NSF grants obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News.
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That tally likely undercounts the impact of cancellations on NSF-backed climate studies because it includes only grants that specifically mention climate, energy, emissions or related terms in their project titles.
