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The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science
Datasets have been removed, federal websites scrubbed and thousands of NOAA staff purged. Experts warn disaster defences are at risk.
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Forecasts of storms such as the recent one in California will be more difficult in future as a result of Trump administration cutbacks on climate funding.
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Eva Xiao and Jana Tauschinski
At 73 years old, Dr Frank Marks might be the oldest “hurricane hunter” still flying for the US government.
Dr Marks has interrupted his retirement in part to help fill staff shortages across the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the federal agency that predicts the weather and collects atmospheric and climate data.
