Employee cuts are affecting the work of the National Maritime Care Management Bureau (NOAA).
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The US National Maritime Affairs Bureau (NOAA) said it will “stop” the reporter update on seasonal weather forecasts and global climate status.
A spokesman for NOAA says that under the administration of President Donald Trump, the recent employee issues caused by reduction, resignation and retirement means that the agency can no longer support the phone. But they say they are monthly report Edited by the National Center for Environmental Information, which is operated by NOAA, will continue to be announced.
Another reason for the agency’s call is that it may be because of the fear of new administration by talking about climate change. Tom di libertoNOAA’s former climate scientist and public affairs experts who were fired during the reduction in February. “They don’t want to be trapped between speaking truth and riding the wrong side of political nominations,” he says.
During the monthly call, NOAA scientists offer updates for various predictions and measurements created by the institution. In addition to information on global temperatures in land and sea, briefings include information on the US seasonal diary forecast and drought. This phone also provides reporters the opportunity to ask questions to better understand new information.
In the past briefing, the researchers publicly discussed the role of human -induced climate change in leading the record temperature. But last month’s telephone-the first NOAA researchers, which were first held under the new administration, did not avoid mentioning climate change when discussing record world temperature in January. The phone is over New scientist I asked the researchers what role the climate change played at high temperatures.
DI Liberto said the institution did not explicitly instruct the researchers not to mention climate change. But he knows that there is an atmosphere of fear of saying wrong in contact with employees.
“I’m afraid that this is afraid of breaking, but I’m afraid that I’m afraid that it’s stopped for people to stop, or I can’t say that they can’t say what they can say based on science,” he says.
Since January, the administration has fired almost a thousand people from the agency and has resigned hundreds of more. Administrative Reportedly, to reduce more than thousands of employees1/10 of the agency personnel.
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