Washington Post: Every two years the Government Accountability Office highlights the top 30 challenges facing the Federal government on its "high risk list'. A looming gap in the coverage of weather satellites and climate change are the newest additions to this list says the GAO in a report released Thursday. The satellite risk Polar-orbiting satellites scan the globe in pole-to-pole loops and feed important data into models for weather forecasting. But a gap in their coverage is possible starting as soon as...
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/report-weather-satellite-gap-and-climate-change-among-federal-governments-biggest-threats/2013/02/15/fd811f78-77a6-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_blog.html
Enclosure: http://youtu.be/G_AhV6DwfYw
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