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Published online 1 July 2009 | Nature 460, 21 (2009) | doi:10.1038/460021b

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UK Met Office hit by cuts to climate project

Defence ministry slashes programme budget by a quarter.

The UK government has slashed its financial support for the Met Office's climate programme. The move came in the same week that prime minister Gordon Brown laid out ambitious talk of a US$100-billion fund to help developing countries to cope with climate change (see "_Nature _ doi:10.

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