The Trump administration’s fiscal-year 2026 budget request would eliminate all funding for climate research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, setting the line item at $0 and dismantling the agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. A draft budget document circulating in Washington proposes shifting remaining weather research to the National Weather Service while closing high-profile facilities such as the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The plan would trim NOAA’s overall budget by about $1.5 billion—roughly 17 percent of current spending—and cut approximately 2,060 positions, or 18 percent of the agency’s workforce. Support for tornado, severe-storm, air-chemistry and ocean programs would also be withdrawn, according to materials reviewed by multiple news outlets. Scientists and former officials warn the reductions could degrade hurricane forecasts, wildfire modeling and long-term climate monitoring. The proposal surfaces as NOAA itself projects an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 19 named storms and as many as five major hurricanes expected. The White House blueprint will be considered by Congress during the annual appropriations process, where lawmakers have previously blocked large cuts to federal climate science. Final spending levels for NOAA will be set later this year.