silence7The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That sounds like something I would put on my plan to undermine and cripple a country if you ask me. Did an enemy of America write Project 2025?
Нет. This not truth. /s
It’s never clear whether they’re more corrupt or more stupid. But they’re determined to bury their heads in the sand over the most important issue ever to face humanity, and dismantle the resources the USA has to mitigate the disaster. Corrupt and stupid, and in the case of the evangelicals, delusional.
Corrupt and stupid and delusional.
Fossil fascism in action.
They want to privatize everything.
The older I get, the more I buck prior societal trends and lean socialist.
Capitalism is a benefit only to the Parasite Class. It’s an absolute scam for everyone else.
Fuck climate change, NOAA provides hurricane and heat warnings. They’re what most weather providers use as the basis for telling people if you should grab an umbrella on your way out the door
Starting a culture war with the weather is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of. What’s your end game? Weatherman Alex Jones telling Floridians to go to the beach because the hurricane is just going to glide by safely and bring a nice cool breeze to the shore to keep you comfy?
Climate change affects everybody numbnuts.
I think you misinterpreted my comment, the point was they’re obviously doing this because they want to continue to deny climate change, but that’s like 1% of what NOAA does.
Ahh, yes I did very much. Appreciate that you were nice about it.
To be completely fair…they might also be doing it “so we stop getting bad weather”…so it is up in the air with those lunatics.
These are the same people who claim that putting in solar panels will cause the sun to run down, so what you’re saying is sadly plausible.
Good lord! I haven’t heard that one.
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Rush Limbaugh told his listeners that a hurricane was fake and to stay. Then the day before the hurricane, just before all the airports are shut down, he is off the air because he was “forcibly moved.”
I’ve already seen yapping heads on sticks claiming that extreme heat warnings are fake-- for example, Neil Oliver. But he also says vaccines cause cancer, so he can fuck right off.
And if they ignore hurricane warnings to own the libs, what can you do but shrug your shoulders?
Present!
Because they allowed him to embarrass himself with the hurricane sharpie situation.
henfredemarsPrecisely. The god dictator will have them all executed in time.
This is the typical Republican playbook. Privatize, their friends take control, and then they get the government to pay their cronies huge sums of money for the services the government used to provide for itself for a fraction of the cost. It’s what they are trying to do with school vouchers too.
solsangraaldon’t forget private prisons. after they’re done with all that, get ready to pay for your fire and police department subscriptions
Plutarch (Plut. Crass. 2.3-4) states that Marcus Crassus, one of the members of the ‘First Triumvirate’5, owed a good portion of his wealth to “fire and war”. In order to make the most out of the frequent destruction of houses by fire, Crassus bought over five hundred slaves, all of whom were architects and builders. He then proceeded to find homeowners whose houses had burnt down (or, in some cases, were still burning!) and negotiate the purchase of their property, after which he would reconstruct the buildings and sell them on at a price; the very literal sense of a real estate ‘fire sale’!
It’s thinly veiled stealing your money and putting it into their pocket.
CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]Except that private weather companies use freely available government data and “enrich” it for the public for a fee.
Which is, imo, even more on brand with Republicans.
Boomer Humor DoomergodContracting public services to private companies is a core tenet of neoliberalist economics. Thanks Chicago School. /s
“Make Tornadoes a Surprise Again!”
ArxCyberwolfDon’t worry, they’re also doing that by taking down storm sirens and replacing them with mobile alerts because basic maintenance is too much to ask. They just assume everyone has access to a phone at all times and that said phone is charged and capable of receiving the alert. Y’know, because the young and elderly don’t deserve to be warned of an incoming tornado!
Hold on. Let me tell you. Sirens in Tennessee are the most bass ackward thing already.
Instead of having a siren sound going off while there is danger in the area… the siren going off is just the NOAA voice reading the alert like you hear on the radio! Big ass “siren” goes, “The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for (list of counties). At 7:55PM, Central Daylight Time, a storm capable of producing a tornado was located-”
After it reads off this useless info, what does it do? It shuts off. It stops making noise.
How are you supposed to hear it over the rain and thunder? How are you supposed to know when the danger is passed?
If it worked like it does in Oklahoma I would defend it but this is a travesty.
That’s certainly not normal. I’ve seen numerous recordings of voice-capable sirens from TN and I’ve never seen one broadcast any EAS messages. Usually there’s pre-recorded messages like “Tornado warning. This is a tornado warning. Residents should immediately take cover.” stored on the controller which is used for such cases. For the siren to be doing what you’re describing means something is seriously wrong with your sirens. Probably an incompetent EMA manager.
I obviously refuse to tell you what specific part of Tennessee I’m in but I’ll try to find someone to email about it.
Definitely get in contact woth with your local EMA. With storms only getting worse and more frequent it’s pretty urgent.
PeppycitoI’m just going to call my friends who live to the west every 10 minutes and ask if there’s a tornado there. If they don’t answer I’ll just assume there is one and go hide. Problem solved.
It further notes that scientific agencies such as NOAA are “vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims,” so appointees should be screened to ensure that their views are “wholly in sync” with the president’s.
do we want flood-risk predictions sponsored by a flood-insurance company, or heat advisories from an air-conditioning conglomerate?
The agency is home to one of the most significant repositories of climate data on Earth, which includes information on shifting atmospheric conditions and the health of coastal fisheries, plus hundreds of thousands of years’ worth of ice-core and tree-ring data.
Eliminating or privatizing climate information won’t eliminate the effects of climate change. It will only make them more deadly.
It sounds like the counter to this is to point out to voters that they don’t really want to pay more for fish because fishermen can’t get data, and we don’t want planes to be even less reliable AND cost more because the government stops tracking upper level wind speeds, and that, generally, we want people who get a salary for doing accurate work rather than people who get paid to say whatever the bossman want to hear. Ask them to imagine how it would work if Google, NBC, Amazon, and Fox each sunk the money for trying to replicate the existing infrastructure and then sold pieces of it to paying customers – such as Allstate, CBS, and Delta Airlines. Everyone else would have to HOPE they were getting complete data and have to wonder what was missing. Noticing record highs and lows would become proprietary and forbidden from broadcast in a way akin to being disallowed from referencing “The Superbowl” unless you pay for a license. How’s any of that going to work?
Uhh wtf? I use NOAA to get my weather, no ads, no bs.
We alllll use NOAA to get our weather. That’s what every weather forcaster uses. Even in Canada a lot of our data is from NOAA. Environment Canada has their own data but it’s pretty shit in comparison.
TIL, didn’t know how important it is.
If Trump wins I’m afraid more people will be saying this more often about more services.
Finally get rid of that pesky post office ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Its a classic republican tactic to claim the government is useless and needs to be replaced, then cut funding so the government can’t do its job, then use that as proof that they were right to cut funding.
See how useless this program I made useless is???
Shades of “Who would have thought healthcare was so complicated?” No offense. There are so many basic services people just don’t think about.
Wished american services and government functions are course(s) taught in middle and high school. It’s a huge shame that almost no knows how the government works in detail, including me, as I have to learn as I go.
In the Dominican Republic, many people, myself included rely on it to track hurricanes so we don’t die.
Dude, there is a regularly updated gif of recent radar activity specific to your area. You can just bookmark the gif.
radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KDIX_loop.gif
Fuck dredging through whatever ad filled apps or websites…
I bookmark forecast.weather.gov with my location, which has that gif and other figures available on the page.
Radar.weather.gov is so based
A lot of the “private sector” weather services just scrape NOAA or other public-sector data and apply some branding to it.
These jerks are doing it because they don’t want to hear bad climate news. Fucking brilliant.
Oh no that’s how they’re getting it done. They want to do it because they want to make even more money off of weather apps.
VeganPizza69 ⓋTaxpayer funded isn’t “free”. We paid for it already.
Cool, so, whose pockets are those taxes dollars going back into? I can guarantee it ain’t going to be ours.
I don’t know, but they don’t talk about social security like it’s ‘free money for seniors’, they paid into it. We pay taxes for these services, they shouldn’t be framed as free, like we’re freeloaders and should be thankful we had it so long (that’s the trumpist framing).
Basically do what you did to healthcare to the entire country
The US will next year be a third world banana Republic dictatorship
Oh no, worse than that, at least banana republics actually have useful exports.
No, exactly like that. The US has lots of useful exports, and as with banana Republics, almost all the money goes to a very limited set of rich and powerful
YourPrivatHaterWell who needs to be told about climate change when we can see the word burning… Also its obvious that they literally want to start a dictatorship now.
Actually it’s just because there’s rich people who are profiting off of weather reporting apps. NOAA is actually banned from advertising their reports. And they still have a sizeable portion of the market because it’s just straight up a better service. So the next big windfall is to kill the government’s public reports altogether and make the private apps the only place you can find them.
Until big oil/coal/assholes pay the private “news” to tell people that climate change doesn’t actually exist because everyone in the world is wrong.