He devoted his life to studying the great pelagic species, sharks, tuna or sneakers, in order to lasting their populations permanently and to understand the impact of climate disruption. After years at the University of Miami, Australia and the United Nations, researcher David Die had just joined as a team leader in October 2024, the American meteorological and oceanographic agency (NOAA), one of the main world centers of climate research, weather and marine resources. The culmination of a career for this 65 -year -old scientist. Everything changed on February 27, when he was noted his dismissal by a generic email which left him an hour and a half to empty his office. A shock.
“I had just had an assessment with my superior, which qualified my work as excellent. I invested myself a lot. Even if I was in a trial period for three years, it’s a very bad surprise ”he says. More than 800 NOAA employees, in probationary period, were returned the same day as David Die, and 500 others left after accepting a resignation offer, so that around 10 % of the 13,000 employees left the agency, according to calculations of New York Times.
Bleeding could continueConsequence of the offensive against climate science carried out at a frantic pace by the administration of American president Donald Trump, a climatosceptic that qualifies the warming of warming ” prank “. Friday March 7, Tens of thousands of scientists have demonstrated in the world to denounce this aggression towards science.
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