WASHINGTON — The Trump administration intends to dismantle one of the world's leading climate research institutions over what it said on Tuesday were concerns of "climate alarmism," despite opposition to the plan. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), established in 1960 as a federally funded research and education hub in Boulder, Colorado, will be broken up, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on social media platform X. Any of its operations deemed "vital" will be moved "to another entity or location," he said. "This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country," Vought said. Moves to dismantle NCAR will begin immediately, USA Today reported, adding that the plan was to "fully close the center's Mesa Laboratory." Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished NCAR scholar, told the Washington Post said breaking up the laboratory would result in a major loss of scientific research. Trenberth, an honorary academic in physics at New Zealand's University of Auckland, said the center was crucial to the search for advanced clima