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NeadReport Mar 3, 2025

Incredible statement from the American Meteorological Organization. It takes a lot for a scientific organization to issue a statement like this:

"U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk due to the recent and ongoing reductions in U.S. federal science capabilities. The consequences to the American people will be large and wide-ranging, including increased vulnerability to hazardous weather...Recent terminations within the government workforce for science are likely to cause irreparable harm and have far-reaching consequences for public safety, economic well-being, and the United States’ global leadership."

Full statement here: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/the-u-s-weather-enterprise-a-national-treasure-at-risk/?_zs=m2nfc1&_zl=iOL6A

Cluster Fcku Mar 3, 2025

@petergleick I'd like to highlight another point in the linked article, which is that private profit oriented companies benefit from reliable science and data when it is acquired without a profit motive. Much of today's technology entrepreneurs believe the same quality can be achieved when the science is performed under a profit motive, their profit. Until it is relentlessly communicated otherwise, the entrepreneurs will continue under such hubris, disasters and burst bubbles be damned.

RRB Mar 3, 2025

@clusterfcku @petergleick The only private companies that matter now are the ones that pay tribute to Cheeto Benito.

Cluster Fcku Mar 3, 2025

@rrb @petergleick yes and this is the issue of course. The profit motive of blessed corps will determine what the science will say. This is a filthy viral infection that affects health, public safety, consumer safety and so on. The end of "disinterested science", with effects accruing as future technological debt.

RRB Mar 4, 2025

@clusterfcku @petergleick I often have the same concern about art. Where the best art, Kafka, Genet, was done in private with no thought of sharing with the public.

I wonder how long it will take for market purists to insist on replacing marriage with prostitution.Musk and Trump see it as the same thing.

@clusterfcku @petergleick

The worst part is that the hyperwealthy are so insulated from consequences that when things do fail they don't really care, it is just a game to them. They have no capacity for empathy.

The lack of consequences make them at some level unable to comprehend reality, because it's other people that have to bear the brunt of their choices.

@petergleick who's gonna tell them this *ain't accidential but "desired outcomes" in terms of #NatSec?

#AgentKrasnov does exavtpy what he was hired for: #Sabotage the #USA and cripple it's capanilities from within...

René Mar 3, 2025

@petergleick We need to get those scientist to migrate to: #Canada #EU #UK #Australia The #UsA will be a long time a no go aera because the political climate will last for years. We can't let science to die. Get them over here. #trump #BlameTheRepublicans

xs4me2 Mar 3, 2025

Just cannot comprehend the evil stupidity ongoing...

lefthandmonki Mar 3, 2025

Rather than Trump being a brilliant Soviet spy from the’80s, a simple explanation is that right libertarian tech bros bought the government and are remaking it in their private property image.

RRB Mar 3, 2025

@petergleick Is this what is meant by the "Weather Underground"?

And, in spite of Bob Dylan, you do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

KellyAnn Romanych (she/her)Mar 3, 2025

@petergleick 💯 And now is the time to write as they would speak to another person.

Be ready, fightback Mar 3, 2025

@petergleick it's often how civilisations collapse, the fetishizing of power over responsibility invariably leads to the destruction of a future potential that becomes self fulfilling. Once the knowledge is gone, once the networks are unlinked they can't be repaired in time to fix things when they become urgent.

RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur Mar 3, 2025

@petergleick All these employees need to see this video.

All these employees have a legitimate case against Musk and Trump, each of which are potentially worth millions.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82eDETd/

TikTok - Make Your Day

Colin from Edinburgh.Mar 3, 2025

The US is not a global leader of anything - so don't worry, you won't "lose your leadership."

JustKathy Mar 3, 2025

I think that "global leadership" ship has already sailed.

David O'Brien Mar 3, 2025

Archived at https://archive.is/eVi3B

SearingTruth Mar 4, 2025

"We destroyed the rocks we stood upon.

And fell."
SearingTruth

oscarfalcon Mar 4, 2025

Karen Mar 4, 2025

@DeniseG They're not wrong. These cuts are insane and dangerous, but I don't think they believe in the danger nor do they care.

Simon Johnson Mar 4, 2025

@petergleick absolutely staggering and puts into context this thoroughly depressing story from here in 🇬🇧

Ok, it would be little more than a gesture by the Royal Society to expel Musk but if the international scientific community can’t show solidarity, the race to the bottom, when scientific enquiry is more crucial than ever, goes on

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/03/elon-musk-royal-society-fellowship-survives-fractious-members-meeting

Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists

Questions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled

The Guardian

Chindeep Mar 4, 2025

That 10-to-1 value proposition is why trump et al want to privatize weather info - they can't allow $100 billion in value be available to all when they can make $90 billion in profit from it.