Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline | The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hurricanes and warn residents of their risk.

What’s going on is that the same microwave measuring instruments that are used to track hurricanes also are used to monitor sea ice, and they showed an ongoing loss of sea ice as a result of the warming caused by greenhouse gases that result from fossil fuel consumption. So the Trump administration decided to cut off access to make it harder to monitor sea ice.