Climate Central: Automatic budget cuts set to take effect March 1 could add to the woes of the federal government's troubled weather satellite programs, jeopardizing future forecasts, a top official said Friday.
"It's not going to be pretty,' outgoing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco said of the package of across-the-board spending cuts known as "sequestration.'
"The sequester has the potential to wreak havoc with so many different things, and satellites loom large within...