NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
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From my limited understanding (dated an oceanographer for like a month), pretty sure this cripples them almost entirely. Like, pretty sure most projects are done via international collaborations since oceans/weather don't stop at the border
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Each and every day is a tsunami of horrible batshit news. This is crazy.
According to another source and the NOAA, the incommunicado orders extend to the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). In addition to gathering data from across the federal government, NESDIS relies on a wide range of international partners. NESDIS’s weather and climate data is essential not only to air transportation safety, but to combat drought, monitor coral reef destruction, and safeguard railway shipping carriers against dangerous weather.
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Isn't there someone connected to the real economy inside the regime who knows how bad this will be for business?
This fucks with aviation, shipping, agriculture, planning fascist rallies... there must be someone in Washington who realises how self-destructive this is.
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You mean, "The nerd."
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If the weather institutes are completely destroyed, it becomes much easier to blame immigants of teh gays for the weather.
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I just saw it a minute ago. Yes, I'm posting in the right thread.
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Is this simply because they have some satellites and Elon owns SpaceX?
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i know it's lib but I was dreading this shit starting to mess with the weather services. One of the undeniably good functions of this government, and i'm not just saying that because im a weather nerd and storm spotter.
Like if they take down the NWS site holy fuck. I know the heritage project wants to paywall it, likely in service to Accuweather. I long ago stopped looking at weather underground and just go straight to the source. There's also a great app on f-droid called Wx which just plugs directly into it and organizes everything for mobile. It's just juicy data, GOES sat, all the radars, convective outlook, walls-of-text from forecasters (that i read in my head like a 1890s telegraph), and that lovely circa 2008 web format style.
I don't think it's lib at all. Trump and his cronies want chaos and destruction. They are intentionally breaking everything in DC. It's scary.
Yeah really torn between "some of this will benefit the world when the U.S. Empire dies" and "it might actually result in a more violently fascist, pissed off Network State that can blacken the sky with killdrones to genocide the Western Hemisphere"
I do think if they fuck something up severely enough to cut SS/medicare/foodstamps we will actually see real riots. All the procedural illegal norms shit is one thing but if everyone gets hit in the material conditions it might go bad very quickly.
I'm also a weather nerd. worked in and around ag for almost 2 decades. want to retire to my kitchen garden and live seasonally in my sunset years.
I dread what is waiting for us all on the other side of a dismantled NWS. it is one of the great achievements of modernity and already was critical before we locked ourselves into the worst climate destabilization models.
santorun was working for AccuWeather when he wanted to privatize it all 10 years ago and that was a fringe position among conservative Republicans. but now that the wrecking ball is swinging, it seems like everything is on the menu except, prisons, police and war.
It actually really sucks to think about how all these things are going bye-bye, tbh.
Book burnings are for Europeans; America deletes!
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It had always been a scheduled maintenance for Boulder, CO server. https://x.com/NOAAGML/status/1887262419342532836 It is just unfortunate timing that Elon and his clowns decided to raid the Maryland NOAA office the day before (they couldn't even raid the correct building lol)