🌀Imagine… Forecasting Without Fear of Cuts🌀
💡 Imagined Endstate:
A future where climate prediction and public safety are protected by policy—where investment in weather data, forecasting, and science is seen as infrastructure, not overhead.
📚 Source:
Sneed, A. (2025, June 6). Hurricane center director warns of 'significant impact' from potential budget cuts to weather service. CNN. Link.
💥 What’s the Big Deal:
As the 2025 hurricane season begins, the National Hurricane Center director is raising alarms—not about the storms in the ocean, but the storms in Washington⚠️. Budget cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) threaten to cripple critical forecasting systems just as climate-driven disasters become more severe and frequent📉.
The Pacific region is especially vulnerable. PI-SIDS depend heavily on U.S.-led forecasting tools for early warnings, disaster response coordination, and public safety planning📡. Undermining the NWS isn't just a domestic issue—it’s a global risk multiplier, especially for frontline island nations with limited capacity to generate high-resolution data on their own.
Cutting these programs doesn’t save money—it simply transfers the cost into lives lost, property destroyed, and futures derailed. In an era of intensifying climate volatility, information is defense. Forecasting isn’t optional. It’s how we buy time, save lives, and build trust. If we defund foresight, we will pay the price in hindsight.
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