For people who care about weather and climate, one of the most concerning proposals on the table is to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. With the rising costs of and vulnerability to extreme weather in a changing climate for the United States, dismantling or defunding NOAA would be a catastrophic error. This would not only help Americans better prepare for and survive extreme weather but also keep NOAA from falling further behind similar agencies in Europe. While the incoming administration may want to take a sledgehammer to the federal government, there is broad, bipartisan support for NOAA in Congress. Currently its mission is to understand and predict changes in the climate, weather, ocean and coasts.

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Persons: Donald Trump, Trump’s, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Richard Nixon Organizations: Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Department of Government, Republican, Department of Commerce Locations: United States, Europe