If you are a US tax payer, it's important to realize that: 1. The federal government has already invested hundred of millions of dollars and millions of person

If you are a US tax payer, it's important to realize that: 1. The federal government has already invested hundred of millions of dollars and millions of person years of scientific effort to collect all the valuable data that NOAA, CDC, NIH, the National Weather Service, etc. have collected, curated, and analyzed 2. The DOGE-ies and their ilk are flushing that all down the toilet -- all your investment will now be lost, or at least inaccessible to you or anyone else who might do something useful with it.