There has been quite a bit of kerfluffle in the news lately about climate scientists rushing to archive climate data and worries that research on climate science will be significantly cut back once President Trump takes office. Cliff Mass of the University of Washington has a thoughtful and detailed discussion of why it is important to maintain funding for climate research no matter which side of the political divide you are on. There is so much we don’t know about how the climate works and because changes in climate at many time scales are important to understand to improve business decisions as well as infrastructure planning and for many other reasons. You can read his blog post at https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/12/why-is-climate-research-important.html.
