micnd90 [he/him,any] @ micnd90 @hexbear.net

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That Karen on the gif looks like she eats salad with a comb and throws staples at staffers

In this particular scenario, the purpose of NOAA global monitoring network is to provide baseline clean air measurements from around the world. This is for aerosols, ozone, various greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and their respective isotopes, ozone-depleting gases (CFCs, HCF, etc), and other trace gases (CO, COS, etc). We are not measuring air in polluted urban cities, those are up to local meteorological institute and universities, but we'll gladly assist with the instrumentation and providing technical expertise if needed. To get background clean air you have to measure far away from polluted urban areas. Measuring air in the middle of the ocean also gives you a benefit that the air is well-mixed and somewhat representative of large areas on Earth. That's why we have observatories in remote islands. The lines you see there are ship tracks from partners. Ships en route from Japan-New Zealand, New Zealand-US West coast, and US-East Coast to South Africa occasionally grab air samples for us.

NOAA runs the central calibration laboratory, and instruments to measure air flasks collected from around the world. The most famous product being the CO2 concentration "Keeling Curve" at Mauna Loa.

The stations in other countries are mostly being run in cooperation with the local meterological institute in that country. But only the US has the might and logistics to collect samples from remote sites like American Samoa, Midway island, Ascension Island, Marshall Islands, and Antarctic sites (South Pole, Palmer Station, Drake Passage, etc.)

It's a newsletter for a research division at NOAA. Usually it grabs science news and headlines citing the research division so that you know the work that your colleagues are doing. But these days the only thing that's on the news is we're slated for complete extermination this upcoming fiscal year lol.

/ourguy/ God is an L/accelerationist

Guadalupe River has a Spanish sounding name, so it is only fair that Mexico send people to clean it up

Ezra Klein's bookclub?

I do support Celtic in Champions league matches because thier fans stand up to Palestine and always make a good show of it. But I support Aberdeen in Scottish Premier League - it is more fun to support lesser teams. Also, Palestine best player Oday Dabbagh plays for Aberdeen.

In EU general yes, many people survived SA charges and continue playing. But not in England where clubs pay tributes to social causes like blacklivesmatter, ukraine, etc.This one in particular is bad because it involves deceit and betrayal from the club, top to bottom. An excerpt from the breaking news:

Thomas Partey, the former Arsenal footballer, has been charged with five counts ofremoved and one count of sexual assault, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced. The bombshell case leaves the Premier League club facing intense criticism for continuing to play him for almost three years in full knowledge of an investigation. Telegraph Sport had exclusively revealed in July 2022 how a Premier League international had been arrested but only now can his name be published

Campaigners are dismayed by Arsenal’s failure to drop Partey while knowing he was under investigation. They point out in most industries professionals would be automatically suspended as soon as their employer learnt of serious criminal allegations. Partey, however, played 53 games last season alone for Arsenal, and racked up an additional 56 club appearances over the previous two seasons while on bail. He played three games at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Abuse from fans has followed him at stadiums throughout his time on bail, however, with his arrest becoming common knowledge despite media refraining from identifying him.

The last sentence was damning.They had to alter/mute chants from opposing fans on TV broadcast. Having not lived in England, I thought after initial reports they either misidentified him, or he bust case, because its been 2.5 years. The chants were just banter in bad taste. They surpressed protests from internal fan group as well. But apparently Partey was just on bail this whole time, the coach, teammates, club owners, reporters, pundits, ex players like Ian Wright and Henry, they all know, and they all stayed hush like nothing happened for 2.5 years while the player earned 200k a week. They let Partey finish his contract, and now everyone at Arsenal had the balls to say "he's not with us anymore, we had nothing to do with him." They protected and worked with him this whole time knowing he was on bail for removed. In contrast, the kit man who expressed solidarity for Palestine was immediately fired. This is as gross as it gets.

To my knowledge it is a bit fragmented. Like there are different tiers of public option for rural vs. urban people, and employers still obligated to provide insurance to their workers (also with different tiers), and a lot of people do out of pocket supplementary insurance. The rural vs. urban divide creates weird problem like some of my colleagues from China said if city people went hiking in rural areas, roll their ankle and had to be helicoptered out, they are out of coverage because they live in cities. But more or less the whole population have some base of insurance (e.g., universal coverage), and emergency services are covered, so people never got bankrupt from ambulance trip. It is just that for very expensive medical treatment, like cancer treatment or some specialist visits, MRI, etc. it is not completely free.

They have universal public option for insurance to cover the bases. People who can afford it also get supplementary private insurance. This is more or less same as Australia or Germany. The only difference is that being a developing country with large population the basic public option is not as good.

WHERE'S THE HIGH SPEED RAIL, UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, AND $5 STREET FOOD!?!?!

Yes, you're thinking about this guy https://apnews.com/article/climate-hurricane-forecasting-noaa-satellites-74ab96aecbca46162e08341fd0941fbe

This is the Sistine Chapel of shitpost, as a fellow shitposter I'm humbled at the majesty of the art. This is almost as good as the "hamberders" tweet

In this particular case, the whole operational yearly budget for NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research division is even less than 1$bn. Meanwhile, the annual defense budget is literally $1 trillion.

Just to dispel a little bit of fearmongering, the National Weather Service, who is responsible for weather forecast after significant pushback actually got their budget slightly increased compared to last year. So hurricane and severe weather warning will mostly be OK (discounting tons of people who got fired and retire early this spring). What is truly dire currently is the research division ("Ocean and Atmospheric Research", OAR) at NOAA slated for complete annihilation, which would results in thousands of actual scientists losing their jobs, massive lost of institutional knowledge and gaps/shutdown in long-term observations (e.g., CO2 levels at Mauna Loa).

Also, all these line items, whole climate and ocean research and observations cost taxpayers $740 million per year. For comparison, ICE already has budget of $10 billion per year and slated for +10% increase in FY26. So if you defund ICE for just one year, you can fund NOAA research and state-of-the-art monitoring for the next 14 years

Not really, they never overturn any official results. The best they can do is force a thorough review and if the fuckup was obvious they will get an issued apology from FIFA, then if there is an official apology, FIFA officials has a mandate to prevent similar accident from happening.

Colorado would be Switzerland of North America, but with concussed weed smoking ski bums instead of billionaire globalist

Pretty sure just in March/April alone in Denmark we have Skærtorsdag (Thursday before Easter), Langfredag (Good Friday), then Anden påskedag (Monday after Easter), Kristi himmelfartsdag (Ascension day), birthday of Queen Margaret (April 16th), and International Workers Day (May 1st) as paid holidays