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US military cuts climate scientists off from vital satellite sea-ice data
A Japanese satellite is coming to the rescue, but researchers will miss out on months of crucial data.
The changes are the latest attacks by the U.S. government on science and the funding of scientific research in an effort to slash the budget to enable tax cuts elsewhere. You may like In an announcement on June 24, the Department of Defense declared that the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center operated by the U.S. Navy would cease the real-time processing and stop supplying scientists with the sea-ice data, although NPR reports that, following an outcry at the suddenness of this decision, it has been put back to the end of July. For instance, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) has a satellite called Shizuku, more formally known as the Global Change Observation Mission-Water (GCOM-W).
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