The NOAA Arctic Report is a record of Arctic weather, temperature, surface air temperature, sea ice extent, snow cover, greenness of the tundra, and sea surface conditions, waterway navigation. The current administration has removed all funding for these scientific inquiries. NOAA will stop funding external peer reviews, web hosting, graphics, summary videos, and dedicated editing staff for the report.
For two decades NOAA has tracked rapid Arctic warming, sea ice loss, glacial melt, and permafrost changes.
If you don’t look at something, then it isn’t there. So goes the current administration platform.
But ´tis a long time solidly developed (from infancy all the way into very late adolescence) sacred, traditional form of Madness : “Live for today for tomorrow we die!!!”
“Coordination of the 2026 Arctic Report Card will not be facilitated through NOAA."
The Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Arctic Research Program will continue to monitor for weather predictions, navigation, and the of coastal Alaskan seafaring communities. Through the Department of Commerce, the previous administration funded a $2mil grant for the continuance of the Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Arctic Research Program; aware that the new administration would defund Arctic surveillance. The University of Alaska Fairbanks is a major contributor to the report, but without access to the NOAA satellite data, information will be curtailed.
This is just the first step in curtailing scientific inquiry, unless it’s for studies on vaccines’ effect on autism.