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White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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Almost like an idiot made the decision to make arbitrary cuts to vital services.
Not arbitrary at all. Focused, targeted, lobbied and paid for by an industry that massively benefits from shaping the body of knowledge and discussion around the topic.
Arbitrary implies indifference or accidental; this is strategic, premeditated and predatory.
If it was focused they'd leave the weather forecast alone and only targeted climate change. Instead they cut everything.
They have two things going on:
Yeah, I'm sure there's a privatisation play going on, but there's no way you can actually make money on providing weather forecasts if you're suddenly going to be needing to put weather stations everywhere. I guess they'll just force the government to keep paying for those and just do the forecasting based on the raw data.