Trump Admin Cuts Princeton’s Eco-Research Funding, Asserting It Creates ‘Climate Anxiety’
The Trump administration also gutted funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which was simply a money conduit to woke environmental activists at a consulting firm.
For far too long, our universities have partnered with the elite media to push narratives that are corrosive to the nation and harmful to our young people.
One example is ‘climate anxiety’, which is nothing more than the ginned-up fantasy fear of the life essential gas known as carbon dioxide.
Studies show that nearly 60% of Americans aged 16-25 are very or extremely worried about climate change, with over 85% experiencing some level of climate-related distress. Furthermore, 43% report that their mental health is directly impacted by climate change, while 38% say these feelings negatively affect their daily lives.
This added stress is needless and distracts our young people from achieving healthy goals and learning to do personal risk assessment properly.
The Trump administration has cut approximately $4 million in federal funding for climate research programs at Princeton University, citing concerns that the program “exaggerated” climate threats and contributes to “climate anxiety” among youth.
The cuts to programs that study topics like sea-level rise and coastal flooding were announced Tuesday by the Commerce Department, which houses the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s premier climate science agencies. They come after federal agencies including NASA and the Energy Department announced last week that they would pause dozens of research grants at Princeton.
NOAA currently spends roughly $220 million per year funding climate research, but the Trump administration has signaled that it intends to pare back those efforts.
Among the latest cuts was funding for the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System, a collaboration between NOAA and Princeton that focuses on improving computer models that show how the ocean and atmosphere are changing. One of the program’s meteorologists, Syukuro Manabe, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 for his work on modeling Earth’s climate and predicting the effects of global warming.
Being bombarded with scare stories from woke activists will do much to alleviate climate anxiety. I know I have felt less anxious since November.
President Trump kills $4 million worth of climate grants to Princeton to stop climate hoaxers from terrorizing children:
“This cooperative agreement promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as “climate anxiety,” which has… pic.twitter.com/KYqTGlEnv4
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) April 10, 2025
The Trump administration is also gutting the funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a congressionally mandated entity responsible for coordinating federal climate research and producing the National Climate Assessment (NCA). The move effectively halts work on the NCA.
The officials said NASA has canceled the contract with consulting firm ICF International, which coordinates the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the 13 federal agencies that write the National Climate Assessment.
Killing that contract has “forever severed” climate change work occurring across agencies, said one federal official heavily involved in USGCRP efforts, who was granted anonymity to discuss the politically sensitive issue to avoid retribution.
The practical effect means the National Climate Assessment will not move forward even though Congress requires a new assessment be issued by 2027, said a second official who is involved in USGCRP activities and was also granted anonymity.
However, the NCA turned out to be a conduit to send millions to liberal environmental activists.
A climate scientist who has worked on the National Climate Assessment in the past says ICF runs the show, virtually controlling the entire U.S. Global Change Research Program.
“By providing all staff for the USGCRP, a federal agency, the ICF exerts undue influence over the global change narrative and priorities presented by the federal government,” said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss the work. “The ICF, through the USGCRP, exerts an undue influence on the production of the National Climate Assessment every four years. With the exception of its Executive Director and the Director of the National Climate Assessment, the ICF supplies all staff associated with the USGCRP.”
Those two positions mentioned by the climate official are the only two employees listed on the U.S. Global Change Research Program staff list: a director of the National Climate Assessment named Ariela Zycherman, and a deputy director for services named Heidi Roop.
A top Trump administration official, Russell Vought, has signaled that he wanted to exert more oversight over the next climate assessment. Vought runs the powerful Office of Management and Budget, and has openly stated that he wants to make deep cuts to “woke and weaponized” spending.
A quick look at the USGCRP shows it only has two staffers. So who’s doing all the work to put together this impactful report?
A source familiar says it’s all being outsourced to liberal consulting firm ICF.
“By providing all staff for the USGCRP, a federal agency, the ICF… pic.twitter.com/O77FjQQS2S
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) April 7, 2025
So, after reading this, I hope your anxiety has also decreased.
I am simply going to tap this sign. pic.twitter.com/FgWqygQIvb
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) April 13, 2025
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Organizing anxiety is what the news business does. Wm. Kerrigan:
News broadcasts, themselves great organizers of anxiety, regularly contain health segments in which the public is invited to become anxious about what it eats, what it buys, how it seeks pleasure. One set of experts steps forth to inculcate anxiety, another to teach us how to live with it. What do those in the know actually know? They always claim to know where our true concerns should lie.
My only experience of “climate anxiety” involves stepping into an elevator after someone has passed gas.
Trump administration cuts Princeton funding. Un-elected, activist, liberal Federal District Court Judge orders Trump administration to pay over the money without delay. Guaranteed.
Some of this money saved should be spent on deprogramming young people of their climate change anxiety – perhaps repeatedly show them “Jurassic Park” and point out those giant creatures lived just fine for 100 million years, when it was much hotter and much more CO2. A little more emphasis on plant biology might be good too, that CO2 is plant food, or that many more people die of the cold than of heat.
I won’t bother commenting on the hopelessness of fighting climate change through the use of man-made toys.
I’m just going to paraphrase someone (whose name I forget) who said:
“No man ever solved a problem when his salary is contingent on the existence of that problem.
Upton Sinclair (probably)
There has never been a point in Earth’s history when the climate *didn’t* change.
In the summer of 1977 it was exceptionally hot and dry in the Old South. I remember the TV stations in the Birmingham area had a pic with the word “CONSERVE WATER” accompanied with a voiceover saying those words before every program started. Nothing’s new.
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Moron x ten to the third. Hey, I tolllllld ya
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FOAD you ugly toad.
You don’t have to post your resume here every day.
The purpose of this organization is to monitor the planet and then decide when to push back the extinction of man by another 10 years.
Has anyone ever stood by the side of road as a 1960’s car rumbles by with about 10% of the fuel coming out of the exhaust pipe unmolested? Now imagine back in the day when that was every single vehicle on the road. Our air is SO much cleaner now than it ever was during the heyday of the industrial revolution, and yet I see people walking around in Portland wearing gas masks with organic solvent cartidges. This is well beyond climate anxiety. This is full climate mental health breakdown. On a plus note, much like with pink hair, these people are telling us that we are better off just avoiding them.
You don’t have to go to Portland. I still see masked people out shopping every time I’m in a store, If THEY have the plague, fine… otherwise, spare us all.
President of Princeton says: “‘The wrong way of doing it does involve using funds as a cudgel to get universities to do things that the government wants.’”
In other words, you filthy peasants. Just give us our money and keep your mouths shut. We elites know best. It’s not for you to tell us what to do.
Cut all federal funds to Princeton until this guy bends both knees and then kowtows towards Washington.
Um… it involves using funds as a cudgel to get universities to STOP doing things that the government OUTLAWS.
You know, it works pretty much the same as arresting people. Would you rather?
It sounds like those folks lost their grift, now they can do something useful for a change.
Don’t hold your breath on that useful thing.
Really, how many Democrat presidential candidates can we handle?
27 ran for the democrat presidential nomination in 2020.
Since I never fell for the globullschiff warming lunacy I never felt any anxiety. But the swamp definitely made me anxious, so watching the draining of the swamp has helped alleviate my worries.
So a court said he can’t cut off Maine’s funding because it was unrelated to the cause (not keeping biological boys out of girls’ sports) now he ties the funding to the direct use of the funding.
If a court says he can’t do that either, then he has a really good appeal that he’s not being allowed to cut the funding under any circumstances, and is he the Executive or just the payroll clerk?
Now, cut funding to every Ivy League college.
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