Climate and weather scientists are joining the anti-Trump resistance in the most ‘scientist-iest’ way – CNN Climate
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Climate and weather scientists are joining the anti-Trump resistance in the most ‘scientist-iest’ wayBy Andrew Freedman, Updated 19 hr ago
A meteorologist monitors weather activity on a computer screen in this file photo taken at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Weather and Climate Prediction headquarters in College Park, Maryland.
Michael A. McCoy / Bloomberg / Getty ImagesForget marching in the streets with creative signs. For President Donald Trump’s second term, in the face of steep funding cuts for climate and weather research and forecasting, scientists have a new way of engaging the public: livestreamed presentations.
Editor’s Note: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream is where the presentations are live.
Starting Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET and lasting for 100 straight hours, climate and weather specialists will spend 15 minutes each talking about their work and why it is so valuable for the American people.
Their goal is to call attention to the impacts of cuts to federal agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the Department of Energy, along with the Trump administration’s withholding of research funding to academia.
The livestream marathon is billed as nonpartisan, according to Marc Alessi of the environmental group Union of Concerned Scientists, who is one of about a dozen organizers.
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