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For now. There's a pretty decent chance that AccuWeather is discontinuing this in anticipation that the NWS is going to be sabotaged. Update: https://gizmodo.c
by macintux 1y ago
For now. There's a pretty decent chance that AccuWeather is discontinuing this in anticipation that the NWS is going to be sabotaged.
Update: https://gizmodo.com/republicans-project-2025-would-end-free-weather-reports-2000475779 https://gizmodo.com/republicans-project-2025-would-end-free-...
- exe34 1y ago> “These form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity,” Project 2025 says. “This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable.” Shoot the messenger and bury your head in the sand!
- evilkorn 1y agoDon't look up
- michaelsshaw 1y agoIt's funny that they call it planning for the unplannable when the NWS have given extremely specific instructions on what to do in all sorts of inclement situations. This passage was just baffling.
- ndiddy 1y agoMeanwhile China has reached their 2030 goal of peak CO2 emissions 5 years early by rapidly deploying solar/wind/nuclear and manufacturing cheap EVs for personal transport. I wish the US was capable of working towards and achieving large-scale societal goals like that.
- rjbwork 1y agoWe are. Just look at the current administration. What they've accomplished in just 6 months is staggering. We've just let the wrong sort of people control our communication infrastructure, set the messages disseminated by that infrastructure, and take power in a multi-pronged attack. There's no reason there couldn't have been an FDR-esque strongman driven emulation of China's approach. Instead we're blowing up the national debt, cutting services, dismantling soft power, destroying our scientific and academic infrastructure, and expanding the military.
- Spoom 1y agoArguably Americans voted for all of that, though. It was laid out in a document that was public years in advance.
- rjbwork 1y agoWell, there are varying opinions on that. I agree with you somewhat, but many that "voted for that" have said otherwise and either 1) didn't ever hear about said document or 2) actively dismissed it as "fake news" or 3) believed the president when he said he'd never heard of it and it wouldn't be his agenda.
- evan_ 1y agoTrump himself, and his spokespeople, all publicly denied that they had anything to do with Project 2025 ahead of the election. It was a laughable lie, the only people who believed it were apparently the media, who reported it as fact.
- exe34 1y agoAnd the numpties who voted for him.
- LeifCarrotson 1y agoIt's always easier to tear things down than it is to build things, the past 6 months are staggering but not because they're impressive.
- sunflowerfly 1y agoWe once were. We built canals, a massive railroad system, then our interstate system. Likely a sign of our slow decline to a has been country. Today we should be building subways, a hub and spoke high speed rail system, and an automated hub and spoke freight system that uses trucks only for first and last mile. And maybe a tunnel at the Bering straight.
- ryandrake 1y agoNone of it even makes any sense. So, our national ability to predict whether it's going to rain this weekend, anywhere in the country, is "climate change alarm?"
- exe34 1y agoI don't think they're educated enough to know the difference.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoIt's one of those troublesome "reality has a left wing bias" problems. If you let the facts express themselves too much, the gap between truth and propaganda becomes too noticeable. Can't have that.
- krferriter 1y agoThey're just evil and want to maximize short term profit with no consideration of side effects or impacts to future trajectories, and their ideas are so stupid and shortsighted they don't even maximize short term profits either.
- krapp 1y agoYou're talking about an administration voted in by people who attack meteorologists because they think they cause hurricanes[0], and a President who has called climate change a Chinese hoax. This is a perfectly rational set of policies as far as these people are concerned. How else are we going to stop the Jewish space lasers? [0]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/meteorologists-threats-conspiracy-theories-hurricanes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/meteorologists-threats...
- throw0101b 1y agoYeah: > "The Pentagon ... announced that we are eliminating woke climate change programs and initiatives inconsistent with our core warfighting mission," [Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell] said. * https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4121054/this-week-defense-department-sharpens-standards-flushes-climate-change-policies/ https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/41... See also "Pentagon Starts Purging Climate Change Measures": * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-pentagon-purging-climate-change-measures-hegseth-says-raising-military/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-pentagon-pu... But from 2021 (during Biden), "Climate change is a risk to national security, the Pentagon says" * https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049222045/the-pentagon-says-climate-change-is-having-a-negative-impact-on-national-securit https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049222045/the-pentagon-says-...
- input_sh 1y agoFor context, this is something AccuWeather in particular lobbied for for decades. This was their goal in particular. In 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Duties_Act_of_2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dutie... > In the wake of the bill's introduction, Santorum was accused of political impropriety and influence peddling because Joel Myers, the head of Pennsylvania-based AccuWeather and one of Santorum's constituents, was also a Santorum campaign contributor. In 2017, when Berry Myers (AKA the CEO of AccuWeather) was nominated to head the NOAA, but was never confirmed into the position (due to the series of sexual misconduct at the company), ultimately withdrewing his nomination two years later. Right now, when Neil Jacobs (long time vocal proponent of comercialising weather data who maintained a social media profile called "The Greatest Hoax" in reference to climate change) and Taylor Jordan (a lobbyist for many weather companies, including AccuWeather of course) got appointed into the position of overseeing NOAA.
- imglorp 1y agoIf the sabotage proceeds, effects will be felt by nautical, aviation, agriculture, commerce, water management, hydroelectric, and on and on. Weather is critical infrastructure for everything like roads and power. It can't be replaced by privatization. It's another attack from within.
- arm32 1y ago> It's another attack from within. So, Wednesday?
- Applejinx 1y agoYup. I concur, it'll be because they expect sabotage.
- ToucanLoucan 1y agoYou're not wrong, but their idiotic ideas having catastrophic effects hasn't stopped them doing anything yet. Probably because none of them have a clue what they're doing.
- imoverclocked 1y agoThat's open to interpretation; Obviously, someone has a clue since it's part of a plan. It may just be that the people who have no clue are put there to make following the plan easier.
- brokencode 1y agoJust because they have a plan, doesn’t mean they have a clue. Their reasoning for this could be as simple as “government bad”. Just look at the wild abandon with which DOGE has gone about its cuts. They literally fired the experts who inspect our nuclear arsenal, then had to scramble to hire them back because you know.. it’s literally nuclear bombs we’re talking about.
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- sbstp 1y agoProject 2025 strongly opposes everything good in this world.
- reactordev 1y agoTo them, it’s bad, to us, it’s good. Good and bad are subjective when one side refuses science. You can show them data until you’re blue in the face but they won’t understand it, they won’t listen to reason because they are on a mission to remake the US like their racist grandfathers liked it. All workers report to the floor.
- pstuart 1y agoTheir adherents are too irony impaired to realize that "they are the baddies".
- cess11 1y agoThat will surely make US agriculture great again.
- foobarian 1y agoTime to buy Gatorade stock
- throw0101b 1y ago> https://gizmodo.com/republicans-project-2025-would-end-free-weather-reports-2000475779 https://gizmodo.com/republicans-project-2025-would-end-free-... John Oliver did an episode on this during Trump 1.0: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8 * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11110660/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11110660/ * s06e26: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with_John_Oliver_episodes#Season_6_(2019) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with... * https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/dhmo0c/weather_last_week_tonight_with_john_oliver_hbo/ https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/dhmo0c/weather_...
- lelandfe 1y agoAlso talked about in Michael Lewis’s book Fifth Risk.
- throw0101b 1y ago> Also talked about in Michael Lewis’s book Fifth Risk. Highly recommend that book. Haven't gotten to his most recent Who Is Government?: * https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/788713/who-is-government-by-edited-by-michael-lewis/9798217047802 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/788713/who-is-govern... But from the interviews it sounds interesting as well. Colbert interview from April 2025: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T30BF32qPgg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T30BF32qPgg
- lelandfe 1y agoThanks for the heads up, added to the list
- _heimdall 1y agoThis is one I don't really understand why the change would be a huge deal in context, the framing of an article as republicans sabotaging the miracle of free weather report APIs is just confusing. If our government were massively in debt and continuing to increase the deficit, maybe I'd understand wanting to consider weather report APIs as a public good worth funding with tax dollars. We should be cutting everything we can to avoid a complete train wreck though, why would this float to the top of the list?
- gxs 1y agoBecause it’s not a drop in the bucket, it’s not even a droplet of mist There are so many things to clean up before you get to this Given that, Idy pose the same question to you, why prioritize cutting this? I would almost consider this public infrastructure and we should definitely keep it
- _heimdall 1y agoWell to start with, I'd ask if its just an easy one to cut - maybe because there are alternatives or it isn't really on the level of a fundamental human right. Balancing our budget is going to hurt like hell and everyone will bleed. That doesn't mean the answer is to say fuck it and keep racking up debt.
- ryoshoe 1y agoGiven the context of the historically largest budget deficit alongside decreased taxes on the wealthiest Americans, it's genuinely hard to believe the goal of this cut is balancing our budget
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoIf you care abut the deficit, then should cancel that big tax cut that was just signed into law.
- inetknght 1y ago> We should be cutting everything we can to avoid a complete train wreck though, why would this float to the top of the list? It makes a lot more sense when you consider that certain people think that climate change isn't real while weather science supports the idea that the climate not only can change but is changing, and that humans are the cause of it.
- vorgol 1y agoProject 2025 is 46% completed: https://www.project2025.observer/ https://www.project2025.observer/
- GlitchRider47 1y agoStrange that their progress distribution chart shows a lower percentage (36%) which happens to be the correct one: https://www.project2025.observer/visualize/charts https://www.project2025.observer/visualize/charts
- LordDragonfang 1y agoThat's not a meaningful percentage. Project 2025 is a comprehensive conservative wish list. It's only scary because of the outrageous items mixed in with all the unremarkable ones that any conservative would put forth. You would expect any conservative, even a "good" one, to knock off a huge portion of the list just by virtue of being conservative; that tells us almost nothing about the likelihood of most of the rest of the list (especially from an administration that has at least claimed to disavow it) Project 2025 is scary because of what it tells us about the American voters that support it, not because it has some sort of prognosticative power over what the Trump admin will actually do. It's about the Overton Window, not the Oval Office.