I've got a literally life and death one.



5G cell networks are going to set back weather forecasting ~30 yrs bc they operate at frequencies too near that of water vapor in the atmosphere, harming measurements.



We'll lose 2-3 days' worth of accuracy in hurricane path forecasting.

For anyone not familiar with hurricane forecasting, that's the difference between being able to safely evacuate a major metropolitan area or instead going "whoops, guess NYC and everyone in it is just getting wiped off the map".



It's unconscionable.

We've collectively spent so many resources on improving weather forecasting over the past several decades (it is really the only field where great strides in forecasting have been made at all in the modern era), and that effort/time/funding has saved many, many lives.

But the federal government just sold off these 5G frequency bands like it was no thang, DESPITE KNOWING full well the scientific and pragmatic impact.

Here's an article in Nature from earlier this year detailing the problem:



https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01305-4 …

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