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The article leaves out that members of one political party have proposed eliminating the NOAA entirely https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/07/22/project

• yogurtboy 2y ago
  Lol I shouldn't have clicked on that link, that shit really makes my blood boil. I don't think most people realize how much free value they get out of NOAA weather predictions.
  • nickff 2y ago
    While I’d agree that accurate weather forecasts provide tremendous value, it’s not “free value”, as tax dollars are paying for it. That money could go to any number of ‘under-funded’ other causes, or be returned to the tax-payers.
    • aegypti 2y ago
      A relief to know NOAA isn’t doing this pro bono, I was beginning to wonder whether they were simply donating forecasts.
• Spooky23 2y ago
  This stuff has been a big bugaboo for GOP idiots for a long time. Rick Santorum (a former conservative luminary) was pushing for a law that would prohibit making weather data available to the public, but would make it available to companies like Accuweather for free. The brother of the Accuweather founder was Trump’s appointee to run the weather service. It’s on of those things that illustrates that no public resource is safe from graft.
• tzs 2y ago
  They also want to get rid of most civil service employees and change their positions to political appointees. Not just the top management positions, but also the people that actually do the day to day work. E.g., the scientists at the FDA who check the science on safety and effectiveness when processing approvals for new drugs would be political appointees who were vetted for loyalty to the President.