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“Storm and surf forecasts in California will become less accurate this year when federal funding for a network of ocean buoys disappears in September.  Federal support for the Coastal Data Information Program, operated by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was drastically cut by nearly 70%. The drop in funding, set to take effect Sept. 1, will force some ocean buoys offline, scientists say, making weather forecasts less reliable, compromise public safety and hamper ship operations.  “If you lined up a hundred meteorologists and asked them, ‘Are buoy observations important to the forecast process and important to the mission of saving lives?’ every one of them will say, ‘Yes, absolutely,’” said Troy Nicolini, the meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service Eureka office. … ”  (dead link to San Francisco Chronicle article omitted)

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As with cuts to NOAA and FEMA  - and the release of 2 billion gallons of water released to fight L.A. fires knowing that it was physically impossible to do so - deconstruction under color of the flag is the point.