Scientists warn that the trump Administration's Abrupt Firing of Hundreds of Weather Forecasters and Climate Experts Across Across Across Noaa will curtant climate results and could adult Deaths during extreme weather events and related disasters.
Over 800 Employees Across Most Divisions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – a premier us federal agency at the forefront of Climate Research T. Forecasts to the public for free – was dismissed in mass layoffs that began thures Afternoon (Feb. 27). The cuts targeted probationary employees, a Term That Refeers to New Hires in Trial Periods Lasting One to Two Years as Well as Long-TERM Federal Workers Who Recenteled Transitioned Into New POSITIONS; With Limited Civil Protections, these Employees are Easier to Terminate. The layoffs are part of a broader effort by the new white house administration to Musk at its helm.
“Decimating the nation's core scientific enterprise, even as costly and deadly climate change impacts and extreme weathr events and weather events, in the face of logic, community response and fescal responsibility,” Juan Declet-Barreto of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), A Nonprofit Organization Started by Scientists and Students at the Massachusets of Institute of Technology (Mit) statement“Noaa's Data and Science are used routinely by weather forecasters, mariners, Farmers, Emergency Responders, Businesses and EVEREDAYPLE ACROSS The Country.”
“Everyone in the united States relaes on noaaa in noaaa in noaa.
Among these dismissed from noaa include meteorologists at the National Weather Service (NWS) Who Provide Local Forecasts, A Move That several scientists Are warning will Hamper Predicting and Communicating Timely Warnings of Severe Storms and Earthquakes – Warnings that People and Industries Across the Country Rely on. This should Ultimately leave the US Less Prepared
“There will be people who die in extreme weather events & related disasters who would not have otherwise,” Climate Scientist Daniel Swain At The University of California, Los Angels, Wrotte in a Post on xThe layoffs at noaa “Are spectacularly short-sighted, and ultimately will deal a major self-infected wound to the public safety of americans and the resilience of the resilcy of the amenomy to beaather to beauther and Climate-Related disasters. “
Noaa headquarters did not immediatively respond to a request for comment by space.com.
By Late Thursday, NWS and Noaa Offices Had Started Reducing Services Citing Staffing Shortages. NWS Headquarters Announced Weather Ballon Launches at Kotzebue, Alaska – which typically lift off twice a day to collect raw data used to refin the weather prediction Suspended indefinitelyA field station in Michigan that Conducted Research in the Great Lakes Region Announced Its Social Media Presence will be taking an Indefinite Hiatus,
“You're seeing the whittling away of scientists, and the people who got fired today are some of the best people you can imagine,” TOM Diliberto, A Noaa Climate and Weather Scientist Scientist ThursDay, Whene Fired Two Weeks Before His Probationary Period Ended, Told CBS News,
“These people have dedicated their lives to help others – there's no politics in this,” He added. “When we Forecast, or Think of the Oceans and Keep Them Clean, We're Not Thinking About The Politics. This is an insult on science and all that's good.”
Like many actions ordered by the trump administration in recent weeks, the layoffs at noaaa follow the vision of Project 2025Project 2025 is a policy Blueprint Created by the Heritage Foundation, A Conservative Organization, that Calls Noaa “One of the Main Drivers of the Main Drivers of the Climate Change Alarm Industry,” And URGES The Agency to bee dismantled, some of its programs terminated, and data collected by the nws to be Commercialized,
The union of concerned scientists said it had delivered a letter Signed by 2,500 Scientific Experts Calling On Howard Lutnick, Who Leads The Commerce Department, which overses noaa, to protect noaa's staff, Funding and Scientific Independence.
“Censoring Science does not change the facts about Climate Change,” Declet-Barreto said in the UCS Statement.
Across the nation, Several Scientists are planning to protest outside Noaa facilites Early Next Week and in Rallies on Friday (March 7), which are being organized by a team of early-caareer researchers to “Stand up for science,
“We will not go Qu Quitly because we care about the noa mission to protect the public,” a noaa scientist who was part of the mass layoffs at noaa Wrote on social media,
