How US research cuts are threatening crucial climate data
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Summary
MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter, The Spark, has highlighted the consequences that proposed budget cuts to US science research could have on data gathering endeavours.
The impact of these cuts will be felt across a range of large and small-scale climate research projects.
For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer assess the impact of the largest natural disasters in the US, and a lab at Princeton that creates leading climate models will struggle to maintain its work.
The publication suggests that public data is crucial for planning strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change.
As well as technological advances, older forms of data collection, such as the temperature measurements in mountain snowpacks, are essential to ensuring accurate forecasting, and should not be overlooked.