Climate policy has become one of the principle casualties of America’s political polarisation. The Trump administration, for instance, recently announced it is dismantling a key ocean monitoring system, despite growing scientific concerns about the rise of a “Super El Niño” and the prospect of disruption to key Atlantic Ocean currents. This move is consistent with Project 2025, the conservative policy blueprint that explicitly calls for dismantling major elements of US climate science capacity.
As a British climate scientist and former chair of UCL’s Climate Action Unit, I am concerned that the UK should avoid following the same path.
