Supports enduring the heat before Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally held at his golf club Trump National Doral Miami on July 9, 2024 in Doral, Florida. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

By Scott Dance

Among the stakes in the upcoming U.S. elections: Weather forecasts, who delivers them and what they say about links between extreme conditions and climate change.

A conservative proposal drafted by the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has ignited an intense debate this month by proposing that a Republican administration privatize weather forecasting now done by government agencies. The plan would break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the parent agency for the National Weather Service, describing it as “

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