One adviser has threatened to cut NASA's
entire climate research program, disparaging it, with no apparent sense of irony, as «heavily politicized.»
Specific examples of additional impacts include a reduction in capital equipment acquisitions across the
entire lab with computing alone sliding from $ 7 million to $ 3 million, the elimination of NCAR's lidar
research facility as well as the extra-solar planet
program, delays in computer modeling and prediction efforts for both weather and
climate, reductions in the solar coronal observing
program, a reduction in the number of post doctoral appointments, reduction of the societal impacts
program, and widespread deferred maintenance and delays in equipment and instrument acquisition and replacement.