Peter GleickMay 17
It's sad to know US scientists invented the most sophisticated weather forecasting models in the world, the satellites and instruments to measure atmospheric conditions, and an advanced alert system to warn the public of coming disasters, and the Trump administration is destroying it all.
Show threadTariqMay 17

@petergleick

Hopefully an opportunity for other countries to step up.

Overall it would be a global good for more science to be done outside the USA.

We've had " too many eggs in one basket ".

Show threadAbram Kedge πŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦May 17
@rzeta0 @petergleick yes... But the data from US based weather stations will be missing. No matter where the model is, it needs that data.
Show threadTariqMay 17

@AbramKedge @petergleick

let's build weather stations elsewhere around the globe

(which will also have the benefit of disaggregating risk and also spreading investment to places that need it much more than the usa)

Show threadAbram Kedge πŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦May 17
@rzeta0 @petergleick yes... But... You need weather stations everywhere to provide inputs to the models. A weather station in Brussels doesn't make up for the lack of a weather station in Birmingham AL. Whichever way you cut it, this vandalism is leaving a massive hole in the global data set.
Show threadTariq

@AbramKedge @petergleick

but currently they're not everywhere

the USA shouldn't be so important

we can learn to do ok without them

May 17 at 3:44pmWeb
Show threadKineneMay 17

@rzeta0 @AbramKedge @petergleick Time for a grid of independent US citizen-scientists (home weather stations) to link with international weather observations.

There are plenty of rural areas without official NOAA stations now. I live in one. There are several automated instrument stations, in places where no one lives (on the side of a local mountain), which are useless when trying to monitor weather conditions. Our "official" predictions are based on a town 50 miles away.

I greatly appreciate the work of NOAA, but it could have been improved rather than destroyed.