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A Former NASA Scientist Turns Anger Into Action
CNN One Thing
Apr 19, 2026

Roughly 95,000 employees left federal science agencies between September 2024 and December 2025, according to the Partnership for Public Service. Former NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel recently joined that group, citing the administration’s funding cuts and attacks on climate and environmental regulations in her resignation letter. However, she remains hopeful about the future of the study of climate change – if her fellow scientists are willing to get angry about it. 

For more: Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center 

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Guest: Kate Marvel, former NASA climate scientist 

Host: David Rind 

Producer: Paola Ortiz 

Showrunner: Felicia Patinkin 

Editorial Support: Andrew Freedman

Photo: Reid Wiseman/NASA