Wisconsin's climate may need to adapt to Trump:
UW-Madison used to be world renowned research center but has suffered greatly under budget cuts from Gov Walker over the years. Now it most likely will have cuts from Federal research climate changes also!
As the story points out--Gov Walker and his repug buddies recently removed all references from the Wisconsin state public website
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Wisconsin's climate may need to adapt to Trump
http://chippewa.com/news/local/state-and-regional/wisconsin-s-climate-may-need-to-adapt-to-trump/article_cdab8de9-6979-5306-b89f-83bd55117357.html
STEVEN VERBURG Lee Newspapers Jan 8, 2017 0
MADISON —Wisconsin conservationists and UW-Madison researchers say they are bracing for potentially big changes in environmental policy after Donald Trump is sworn in as president with Republican Congressional majorities at his side.
Trump’s claim that climate change is a Chinese hoax and his vows to dismantle the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency foreshadow cuts in UW-Madison’s broad array of climate research, and an easing of EPA pressure on the state over lax enforcement air and water pollution laws, researchers and attorneys say.
“It seems like climate science is going to be targeted,” said Michael Notaro, associate director of the university’s Center for Climatic Research, which receives about 90 percent of its roughly $3 million budget from federal sources. “We are very vulnerable, and from our standpoint we see climate change research as something very critical that has big impacts on the state and the globe.”
In addition to about 20 scientists whose research into the complex mechanics of climate change is funded by three federal agencies, there are dozens of others working on ways to slow the release of greenhouse gases through things like better batteries and alternative fuels.
And there is even more research into issues such as the ways human health and drinking water will be affected and how farmers, foresters, wildlife managers and others can best adapt so that changes in climate don’t undermine their work, said Dan Vimont, CCR director.
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Another Trump-related concern in Wisconsin is whether the EPA will continue to push the state to fix dozens of deficiencies in its protection of lakes and streams, and do more for rural residents whose drinking water has been polluted for years by animal waste.
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