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Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels

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Scientists are scrambling to preserve the ability to know how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere.

NOAA maintains a global backbone of measurements of carbon dioxide and other gases.

The loss will be a nightmare scenario for climate science, not just in the United States , but the world.

Climate change research community could soon be adrift, unable to know how quickly carbon dioxide levels are rising.

Even in the best of times, long-term observations can be very fragile.

Researchers have to be extremely diligent and exacting to ensure that measurements in 1958 are comparable to those today .

Graduate students interested in learning to conduct this arcane work are a rare commodity.

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