Gonna be a real shame when all those trump supporting midwesterners get their trailers leveled by a storm that could have been predicted but wasn't. Oh well...
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Good! I DONT care if my House gets RAZED to the Ground by a Random Tornado I was Unprepared for as LONG as we can Afford to Give President Elon Musk, LEADER of DOGE, more MULTI BILLION DOLLAR CONTRACTS!
Just in time for hurricanes and tornadoes...
What’s the point of this? From their perspective? I don’t get it.
Petty revenge for contradicting trump about that one hurricane.
Probabaly a mix of lowering government costs to give billionaires a tax break and if we don't monitor it the climate change numbers don't get worse.
Also, private companies selling you tornado warnings for the small price of 50 dollar/month soon.
We're gonna have to pirate our weather forecasts like we do with live sporting events.
But arent services like accuweather just reselling data gathered and processed by NOAA?
Yes. I have a friend in meteorology and they said that the Weather Channel doesn't actually have any meteorologists on staff, they just repackage what NOAA and the NWS report instead of crunching numbers themselves.
The next hurricane season might have just gotten very interesting. Nobody will tell the good people on Florida or Texas about all that nasty climate change, or the hurricanes that will come because the Hottub of America (formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico) will turboboost more smaller storms to nasty little category 5s. No annoying evac orders! Hurray! Americans just take things as they come!
Lol exactly what I thought. Hurricanes are fake news though right?
Just like global warning, all just leftist inventions.
Wait until Trump decides to defend Florida from an evil, Democrat-made hurricane by fighting it with nuclear bombs like he once said.
Bets on how long until Mar a Lago is underwater
Is there something like underwater golfing?
This has been one of my biggest worries this go around. The national weather service provides intensely important information and provides it freely. At this point, I'm waiting for them to hack it up and sell the remains to the parasites at AccuWeather or something and start charging for what was always a free product.
Didn't AccuWeather mostly just pull from nws anyway? Now they'll need to do all that work themselves and it won't be free anymore.
That's the thing that's confused me a bit. Project 2025 definitely calls for the dismantling and privatization of NOAA, but I didn't see anything specifically mentioning AccuWeather. IIRC the CEO of AccuWeather said it'd be way too costly for them to pick up all of the responsibilities they depend on NOAA for. At this point, I'd fully expect Musk to say his companies can handle it.
They won’t do it themselves. They can’t. They’ll just offer a worse forecast.
Also nws gets data from private entities which may not be as hot to share with a for profit that competes with them.
I wonder where they'll find the money
Extra note on this. NWS's agenda also includes educating people about weather and climate and other things. Our engineering class about rainfall and such basically is in chaos right now because the person from NWS teaching it is no longer working there. So this will have long impact for future generations. Specifically since our engineering department already is very tiny compared to other departments.
Great decision right as we head into hurricane season. At least we haven't been setting records for the number and intensity of hurricanes, or this would be extra stupid
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Excellent job republiQans and non-voters. Once again your vision and wisdom shine forth like a beacon in the darkness.
What happened with the whole Qanon thing, haven't heard anything about that for a while
According to the New York Times it was all true and Trump was right about everything.
Yikes. So Qanon was cooked up by Russia to gather the conspiracy theorists and mentally ill who would support fascism in the US?
No, I actually think it was just dipshit 4channers riffing which then got picked up by some opportunistic douchebags who were then co-opted by russia to divide the US and lay the groundwork for fascism.
Exactly this. Russia doesn't have to do a lot of work here. Most of this bullshit is home grown. Russia just amplifies it.