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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not often one encounters a spectacle so rich in irony and unintentional comedy that it practically writes its own parody. Yet here we are, watching the \u201cWeather & Climate Livestream\u201d (WCL)<\/a>\u00a0unfold\u2014a 100-hour marathon of hand-wringing and bureaucratic bereavement that makes the average opera look stoic.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Launched with all the solemnity of a state funeral, the WCL is the alarmist\u2019s answer to QVC. Instead of selling miracle blenders, they\u2019re peddling fear, nostalgia for the heyday of bloated climate budgets, and a heaping spoonful of institutional self-pity. The official pitch? A \u201cnon-partisan\u201d event dedicated to \u201ceducating the public\u201d about the catastrophic consequences of proposed federal budget cuts to climate research. The reality? A long, monotonous group therapy session for government scientists afraid their gravy train has hit a fiscal cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pageantry of this livestream is nothing short of remarkable. With a tone oscillating between funeral dirge and telethon, they\u2019ve assembled a lineup of federally funded forecasters, former agency heads, and token youth activists to warn of a future where hurricane forecasts are slightly less precise\u2014unless, of course, Congress acts now to restore their budgets to previously unchallengeable levels. It\u2019s like watching a PBS pledge drive hosted by Chicken Little and Greta Thunberg\u2019s ghostwriter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whether it\u2019s tomorrow\u2019s temperatures or the sea level in fifty years, Americans need to plan for our futures. For generations, the US government has invested in the science that helps us do so<\/a>, building one of the greatest meteorology and climate science communities in the world.

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Take, for example, the session titled \u201cLive from the last hours in the NASA GISS lab.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GISS Gets the Boot: A Seinfeldian Saga<\/a><\/blockquote>