In its ongoing campaign against climate change research, the Trump administration is proposing budget cuts of about 1.8 billion dollars per year from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), taking away 2,000 full time jobs and closing down the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton. This laboratory, engaged in its mission since 1955, is a key center of weather forecasting and climate research, including tidal studies essential for mariners. Without it and many other labs that are currently being threatened and defunded, inaccuracies in the weather forecast and unforeseen natural disasters could spell real danger for the country. RCEI affiliate Anthony Broccoli, who spent 21 years at the GFDL, warned, “Ending some of the other research that NOAA performs through its research labs would be a tremendous loss for American science. But maybe more importantly, it’s a tremendous loss for the American people.”
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