The Trump administration’s cuts to climate research and weather forecasting are “blinding” the U.S. to oncoming threats to its food supply — and kneecapping efforts to protect it. Heat waves and drought driven by fossil fuel burning could pose an existential threat to key parts of the American food supply, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature. Forecasting and adaptation could cut those crop failures almost in half, the study found. But those measures are under attack from President Trump’s mass staff reductions at agencies tracking weather and climate. READ MORE: https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5357564-trump-cuts-noaa-nasa-farmers-climate-change-food-supply/