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First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters | Arwa Mahdawi
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Hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( Noaa ) were abruptly fired last week .
Experts and lawmakers have warned that the ramifications could be wide-ranging and deadly.
Republicans have long been pushing to limit the government’s role in weather forecasting in order to privatise large sections of it.
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