Umm, we kinda need NOAA.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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Have you considered the private weather services and their profits? You're being really hurtful to those fat cats /s
Yeah, it's fucked, but Project 2025 has it marked for destruction.
Living in Florida is about to get spicy.
Well them goobers will love it as long as it ain't woke....or socialist
How does this make America greater or safer?
Step 1: cut essential programs Step 2: deny deny deny Step 3: ??? Step 4: die in poverty unless you were born rich
Going back to the roots, I see.
Everything old is new again!
The climate committee, stood up just before President Biden left office, was established to provide NOAA with advice on making its data and tools better available for those managing droughts, floods, wildfires, heatwaves and other impacts of climate change.
NOAA/NHC tools are already pretty decent. NOAA hopefully doesn't get a lot more cuts, and maybe these advisory committees aren't critical, even if it provided spokespeople that could speak outside of a narrow employee mandate/lane.
Woodchipper. It stands in the way of private weather services and their profits
Private weather services currently benefit from NOAA/NHC significantly. NHC is usually conservative with hurricane estimates at landfall, though storm surge is correctly put at maximum risk. There are very good private weather/hurricane modelling software in the world. Much of it not American. Youtube is a good expectation of "private weather services". Alarmism gets views, and there is often one model to get alarmist about.
NOAA plane reconnaissance of hurricanes is an important input into the mentioned models, and adds precision over satelitte data. The communication level of NOAA to public and local officials saves lives.
This year a very extreme hurricane got all the way up to Appalachia and did record monumental flooding. Somehow GOP made people mad at FEMA, just as they got mad that LA firehydrants can't put out forest fires. The point is that increasingly catastrophic disasters response is not going to be better by gutting FEMA or preparedness from NOAA.
Sorry, I'm not supportive of the gutting of NOAA, actually fucking depressed about it. But it is still happening
same.
I feel a bit better knowing they were just created. Yeah would have been nice to have but clearly did ok before it existed.