The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11490832
NOAA also collects and analyzes key climate data
It's completely fucking bonkers NOAA is an amazing organization and delivers so much value on such a small budget.
This is exactly why they need to destroy it, the "free" market can't compete with the economic efficiency of a well run government program
They cannot stand the existence of a good example. They HATE it. This is why they seek to make worse, and then destroy, things like public schools, libraries, and the USPS.
Their goal is to abstract people from the hard evidence being wielded against the most egregious environmental offenders. An educated populace is dangerous to the Republican Party.
pay no attention to the flaming hellscape and electrical overloads, NOTHING IS HAPPENING OK? Look at the federal weather report - the comfort index is at 100%, there's no problem. Why do liberals have to make up a crisis?
Living in hurricane country, I have a big problem with that.
Don't worry we can redirect hurricanes with a sharpie pretty easily.
All ya need to track a hurricane is a sharpie!
God damned liberuls
Tell people 2025 would do this. No federal weather means local counties would have to pay Big Business for tornado/hurricane warnings. We'd pay more for fish because fishermen can't get data unless they pay. Plane schedules become even less reliable AND cost more because the government stops tracking upper level wind speeds.
Look: 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 people 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 make things better?
P.S. This article is posted to several communities, so I'm reiterating this post repeatedly.
NOAA is awesome and with a cable dongle, some copper wires, a few open source programs you can listen to satellites and decode that to real images, it's real magic.
Who do they think the local weather people get their data from? Where do they think weather says comes from?
They know who it comes from. They want to change that answer from "free from NOAA" to "on a subscriber basis from private companies like AccuWeather".
For some reason this makes me think of rapidly deplaning and sheltering in place from ten tornadoes out in Chicago last night. Not sure why
noooooooaa
Next I'm gonna find out the plan wants to get rid of emergency alerts and amber alerts unless you pay a subscription
These people are insane.
The folks proposing it tend to be ones whose friends will profit from it, and the people voting for it don't believe that anybody could be that evil.
He has a sharpie marker. That’s all we need.
Privatize the planet!