Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumSequester threatens nation’s weather forecasting
we're number one! we're number one! ...
Its not going to be pretty, said outgoing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (according to Climate Central). The sequester has the potential to wreak havoc with so many different things...
The cuts loom large following a two-year onslaught of extreme weather, including Superstorm Sandy and continuing historic drought conditions in the Heartland. In 2011 and 2012, the U.S. experienced the most and second most number of billion dollar weather disasters on record.
Sequestration substantially increases the risk that the United States will not be a weather-ready nation, said Kevin Kelly, a lobbyist at Van Scoyoc Associates, who advocates for the weather enterprise. Communities that experience a heightened risk of severe weather which affects large portions of the nation in the spring and summer face the chance of greater danger because the Weather Service will not be operating at 100 percent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/sequester-threatens-nations-weather-forecasting/2013/02/26/284f6f66-7d29-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_blog.html
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)The executive branch is managing where the cuts will be taken. It is an unprecedented event in terms of congress abdicating control of the purse strings. The administration can pick and choose within the two sectors where cuts will be made. The question at this point is do you trust the President to be handling this or not?
phantom power
(25,966 posts)(that is, if you're asking me in particular)
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Since the law orders cuts without specificity, the administration can use it to clean up things, kill some programs, and otherwise shape things as they see them without congressional interference. Sequester is not rational, but I am hoping since the repukes handed us all lemons, Obama starts making lemonade.
In the short term there is a lot of fear mongering going on...poison pill diatribes etc. Hopefully Obama will make some positive use of it.
pscot
(21,024 posts)can't hurt us.