Entering the new Trump administration for a month, the firing of scientists and the freezing of research funds to the United States have led to unprecedented scientific expertise in the federal government. Proposed and ongoing cuts, such as the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Administration or FEMA, may ensure Americans’ safety during and after the disaster. Meanwhile, scientists warn that funding for climate research has the potential to blindfold the eyes as the dangers of climate change escalate in the years and decades.
Large-scale layoffs FEMA
When Hurricanes Helene and Milton were more devastating due to climate change, the Southeast destroyed last fall, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency workers or FEMA overseeing the government’s rescue of survivors and helping recover effort. FEMA is also key to strengthening the country's long-term resilience efforts, such as improving flood-prone houses and installing drainage projects.
However, mass layoffs of probation employees – usually include a new employee’s civil service classification, but can also include veterans, long-term employees who have long-term conversion positions or those who work quickly or have disabilities, and those who have a sudden departure inside Elon Elon Musk's Governor's unit has developed a deferred resignation plan, resulting in about 1,000 of FEMA's 25,000 employees. The Washington Post reported that an employee of the agency was fired as a 15-year employee and head of the National Flood Insurance Program. According to the Washington Post, a wave of shooting is expected to target employees of climate-related diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Such cuts could lead to slower disaster response, longer waits for spending and reduced resilience efforts to implement, ultimately increasing the risk of damage to extreme weather enhanced by climate change. Additionally, dismissals may prevent updating the agency’s apparently outdated flood map, which is essential to determine flood risks and insurance rates.
President Donald Trump vows to demolish FEMA, transfer disaster funds to states and privatize the national flood insurance plan – core recommendations for all 2025 projects, Trump's second term plan, demands cancellation Office of Energy Efficiency and Office of Renewable Energy Energy, National Weather Service’s filth, and the National Flood Insurance Program.
Potential cuts from the National Weather Service
The National Meteorological Administration is supervised by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA scientists and meteorologists are shooting hundreds of times, according to the Boston Globe.
“There are a lot of understaffed local offices,” Bradley Colman, a former NOAA meteorologist and president of the American Meteorological Society in 2023, told the Boston Globe. “Your risk is just not filling the body The seats…the right people don’t show up at the right time and end up putting people’s property and lives at risk.”
The 2025 project requires commercialization of the National Weather Service (NWS), claiming that “the study found that the forecasts and warnings provided by private companies are more reliable than those provided by NWS.”
To support this claim, the 2025 project cited a 2020 Accuweather press release. In fact, most private forecasting companies and broadcast meteorologists rely heavily on weather modeling conducted by the National Weather Service, while NOAA’s online forecasting discussions and other product insights provide weather businesses as a whole, as well as interested citizens. Value.
Public opinion polls unanimously ranked the National Weather Service as highly approved ratings in the Economist/Yougov Survey, which began in February 2025, including in the February 20025 Economist/Yougov Survey. Traditionally, the National Weather Service has received strong support from both parties, including emergency management personnel in the political field.
A recent study found that the National Weather Service provided a 73:1 return on investment.
The last major reorganization of the National Meteorological Administration – a massive modernization effort that took place in the 1990s – reduced the number of National Meteorological Services offices from 256 to 122, while the number of staff from about 5,100 to about 4,700, a cut of about 9%, cuts About 9%.
The restructuring involves a careful, multi-year planning process, and almost all layoffs are through churn-retirement and other voluntary departures. In the process, the National Meteorological Administration significantly increased the share of staff composed of meteorologists, from about one-third to about two-thirds.
In a retrospective report in 2012, the National Academy concluded that “$4.5 billion in investment in modernization and related restructuring (MAR) is required. Overall, MAR has successfully made significant improvements to weather businesses.”
Compared to careful years of efforts, the current process involves cutting federal scientific institutions in a few days as required by non-subject experts and can have serious implications. With the harsh weather and hurricane season approaching, the National Weather Service is already short. By the end of 2023, it fell by about 5% from its funding staffing target.
Cut research funding
The government also takes action to block scientific research funding among government agencies. The National Institutes of Health (the largest scientific research material in the United States) awarded a $35 billion grant in 2024. Although recent executive orders undermine university funding by cutting overheads paid by NIH, the temporary stopping budget by judges (OMB) has figured out a technical solution that can continue to deny NIH research funding, as Nature on Thursday As reported. OMB’s new director Russ Vought is one of the authors of the 2025 project.
Vought said in 2023: “We want bureaucrats to be affected by trauma. When they wake up in the morning, we hope they don't want to go to work because they are increasingly seen as villains. We want their funds to be shut down so that the EPA can't Do all the rules for our energy industry because they don't have bandwidth financially.”
Meanwhile, the National Science Foundation has supported basic scientific research at thousands of U.S. institutions, has lost more than 10% of its employees and may face more employee losses and cuts.
The dramatic cuts by NIH and the National Science Foundation will destroy higher education in the United States, forcing thousands of layoffs and ending education for thousands of graduate students.
In the long run, eliminating resources for scientific research may make American residents more vulnerable to disasters. After Hurricane Katrina, in a 2006 report, the National Science Commission found in a 2006 report that increasing the funding for hurricane research by $300 million per year would be cost-effective, while the 2,000 already existed at the time $10,000 in annual funding.
The government is also working to weaken municipalities, the state and others rely on research that prepares for the escalating consequences of climate change. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new head of health and public services. Resilience of individuals, communities and countries around the world, especially in the most risky countries.” Its annual budget is $40 million.
Could critical climate models or data simply disappear? Most climate model codes are saved in distributed archives and may not be easily deleted. But cutting budgets can eliminate the scientists needed to maintain models.
In the words of NSF Program Director Raleigh Martin, “Science is the goose that lays eggs. Unfortunately, the goose is strangled and those golden eggs are being lost. Therefore, our society will be poorer, sicker and weaker.”
Loss climate page
Many government pages have removed the term “climate” in recent days, especially in the EPA, and on January 27, all information about climate change has been removed from its website and other important areas of its website, buried Its depths are in hard to find parts. NOAA's climate web removal has not yet occurred, and the Climate and Climate Forecasting Center website is still on the rise. We have been downloading major government publications we use, such as the multi-billion dollar climate disaster page, NOAA’s global warming and hurricane page, and the 2022 U.S. sea level change report.
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