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Republicans have for a long time wanted to end free weather information and hand that job over to for-profit companies like AccuWeather[1]. Trump v1 nominated A
by ryandrake 2y ago
Republicans have for a long time wanted to end free weather information and hand that job over to for-profit companies like AccuWeather[1]. Trump v1 nominated AccuWeather's CEO to run the organization[2]. Project 2025 calls for breaking up NOAA and commercializing it[3]. This is not some hidden agenda, and you don't have to speculate about their intentions. As is the case for everything these guys do, they are open and brazen about it.
1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/noaa-project-2025-weather/678987/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/noaa-pro...
2: https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuweather/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuwea...
3: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-project-2025-says-about-the-national-weather-service-and-noaa https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-pro...
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- neuronexmachina 2y agoYup, they're pretty clear that they see the NOAA as an enemy to be defeated: > The document describes NOAA as a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry” and said it “should be broken up and downsized.”
- leviathant 2y agoThis is exactly it. Rick Santorum was beating this drum decades ago (given that Accuweather is based in Pennsylvania)