NOAA also collects and analyzes key climate data
It’s never clear whether they’re more corrupt or more stupid. But they’re determined to bury their heads in the sand over the most important issue ever to face humanity, and dismantle the resources the USA has to mitigate the disaster. Corrupt and stupid and delusional.
Fuck climate change, NOAA provides hurricane and heat warnings. They’re what most weather providers use as the basis for telling people if you should grab an umbrella on your way out the door
Starting a culture war with the weather is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of. What’s your end game? Weatherman Alex Jones telling Floridians to go to the beach because the hurricane is just going to glide by safely and bring a nice cool breeze to the shore to keep you comfy?
I’ve already seen yapping heads on sticks claiming that extreme heat warnings are fake-- for example, Neil Oliver. But he also says vaccines cause cancer, so he can fuck right off.
And if they ignore hurricane warnings to own the libs, what can you do but shrug your shoulders?
They want to privatize everything.
The older I get, the more I buck prior societal trends and lean socialist.
Capitalism is a benefit only to the Parasite Class. It’s an absolute scam for everyone else.
“Make Tornadoes a Surprise Again!”
Don’t worry, they’re also doing that by taking down storm sirens and replacing them with mobile alerts because basic maintenance is too much to ask. They just assume everyone has access to a phone at all times and that said phone is charged and capable of receiving the alert. Y’know, because the young and elderly don’t deserve to be warned of an incoming tornado!
I’m just going to call my friends who live to the west every 10 minutes and ask if there’s a tornado there. If they don’t answer I’ll just assume there is one and go hide. Problem solved.
Basically do what you did to healthcare to the entire country
The US will next year be a third world banana Republic dictatorship
Oh no, worse than that, at least banana republics actually have useful exports.
No, exactly like that. The US has lots of useful exports, and as with banana Republics, almost all the money goes to a very limited set of rich and powerful
Well who needs to be told about climate change when we can see the word burning… Also its obvious that they literally want to start a dictatorship now.
Uhh wtf? I use NOAA to get my weather, no ads, no bs.
We alllll use NOAA to get our weather. That’s what every weather forcaster uses. Even in Canada a lot of our data is from NOAA. Environment Canada has their own data but it’s pretty shit in comparison.
TIL, didn’t know how important it is.
Shades of “Who would have thought healthcare was so complicated?” No offense. There are so many basic services people just don’t think about.
Wished american services and government functions are course(s) taught in middle and high school. It’s a huge shame that almost no knows how the government works in detail, including me, as I have to learn as I go.
In the Dominican Republic, many people, myself included rely on it to track hurricanes so we don’t die.
A lot of the “private sector” weather services just scrape NOAA or other public-sector data and apply some branding to it.
It further notes that scientific agencies such as NOAA are “vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims,” so appointees should be screened to ensure that their views are “wholly in sync” with the president’s.
do we want flood-risk predictions sponsored by a flood-insurance company, or heat advisories from an air-conditioning conglomerate?
The agency is home to one of the most significant repositories of climate data on Earth, which includes information on shifting atmospheric conditions and the health of coastal fisheries, plus hundreds of thousands of years’ worth of ice-core and tree-ring data.
Eliminating or privatizing climate information won’t eliminate the effects of climate change. It will only make them more deadly.
It sounds like the counter to this is to point out to voters that they don’t really want to pay more for fish because fishermen can’t get data, and we don’t want planes to be even less reliable AND cost more because the government stops tracking upper level wind speeds, and that, generally, we want people who get a salary for doing accurate work rather than people who get paid to say whatever the bossman want to hear. Ask them to imagine how it would work if Google, NBC, Amazon, and Fox each sunk the money for trying to replicate the existing infrastructure and then sold pieces of it to paying customers – such as Allstate, CBS, and Delta Airlines. Everyone else would have to HOPE they were getting complete data and have to wonder what was missing. Noticing record highs and lows would become proprietary and forbidden from broadcast in a way akin to being disallowed from referencing “The Superbowl” unless you pay for a license. How’s any of that going to work?
Will we have to pay extra for the Sharpies, too?
Taxpayer funded isn’t “free”. We paid for it already.
Yall realise project 2025 isn’t even going to be implemented right? Its some plan cooked up by a think tank and isn’t endorsed by Trump.
31 of the 38 people who helped write or edit the project served in some manner in Trump’s administration or transition
Project 2025: inside Trump’s ties to the rightwing policy playbook
Some more extracts:
Roberts, the Heritage leader, has said he met with Trump several times and they were friendly. Trump gave the signature speech at a Heritage conference after Roberts took over the foundation. When Roberts was tapped for the role, Trump said he would be “so incredible” and “outstanding”.
Paul Dans and Steven Groves co-edited the project, which includes chapters on federal agencies written by former Trump officials, allies or other conservative experts. Both Dans and Groves served in multiple roles in the Trump administration. Another big contributor to the project is Russ Vought, who Trump appointed as director of the Office of Management and Budget.
