White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Proposed cuts to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration target Princeton-U.S. climate research lab.

The lab, called Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory , was established in 1955 and moved to Princeton in 1968 .

NOAA ’s overall funding would be slashed by 27% , according to a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget .

The GFDL ’s models, including the first hurricane model, became the basis for both short-term weather outlooks and longer-range forecasts, or climate prediction, which soon became one and the same.

The loss of the GFDL and the databases and sensors that support it might mean.

The degradation of American climate prediction capabilities poses significant risks to the U.S. economy.

Howard Lutnick , the secretary of commerce himself, endorsed the importance of climate science.

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO and chair of the global Wall Street investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald called climate change “the defining issue of our time” The potential loss of the world’s greatest climate forecasting tool has other ramifications for long-term safety and security.