Fund US Weather & Climate Science

The United States has long been a world center for climate and weather prediction. We have pushed the scientific bounds of what humanity thought possible, by pioneering computerized weather and climate forecasts, furthering our understanding of the physics of our world, and deploying an unparalleled observational network. Thanks to this work, we can now predict both future weather conditions days in advance and the impact of carbon pollution over the coming decades. This “quiet revolution” in science was made possible by decades of investment by the American public and has benefited everyone from farmers to city planners, from first responders to businesses, and many more.

Cuts to the funding for meteorologists at the National Weather Service (NWS); for scientists improving climate and weather prediction methods at NOAA and NASA and through the NSF, DOE, EPA, USGS, and other federal agencies; and for the observational programs supported by all these agencies that keep these predictions grounded in reality undermine our ability to continue our research to protect American lives and livelihoods.

Congress must support weather and climate research for prediction and communication of day-to-day weather, extreme weather events, and climate change by fully funding NOAA, NASA, NSF, EPA, USGS, and Department of Energy (DOE).

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