Lil ❌👑Jun 1, 2025
Doug Bostrom

"The National Weather Service costs the average American $4 per year in today’s inflated dollars — about the same as a gallon of milk — and offers an 8,000 percent annual return on investment, according to 2024 estimates. It’s a farce for the administration to pretend that gutting an agency that protects our coastlines from a rising tide of disasters is in the best interests of our economy or national security. If the private sector could have done it better and cheaper, it would have, and it hasn’t."

#meteorology

A Hurricane Season Like No Other https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/hurricanes-florida-forecasting-national-weather-service.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.EH3N.ei1sRzEmCrw3&smid=nytcore-android-share

Opinion | A Hurricane Season Like No Other

It’s only a matter of time before the next Hurricane Milton is at our doorstep. But with our weather intelligence severely compromised, will we know it?

The New York Times
May 31, 2025 at 9:14pmWeb
Show threadDeborah SampsonJun 1, 2025

@Doug_Bostrom
The biggest threat to #humanity …
Besides humanity…

Is arrogance, complacency & greed.

“Pride is not power!”
Don’t believe me…
Ask “Mother Nature”.

Show threadPeach FaeJun 1, 2025
@DSDJ3147 @Doug_Bostrom
To add insult to injury, what private sector exists in this market predominately uses WS data at little or no cost. Most wouldn’t be in business without it.
Show threadMx VerdaJun 1, 2025
@Doug_Bostrom is the NYT doing the Sun's / Daily Mail's thing where good journalists / regular people get hit with a wave of guilt to write decent critique on occasion?
Show threadDianeJun 1, 2025

@Doug_Bostrom

Weather & Climate scientists are on the 99th hour of a 100 live stream to get people to call their reps to save weather & climate science.

The history of the stream is at:
https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream

The link to get to the request to call your reps is at https://wclivestream.com/act

The union of concerned scientists has a similar call to action at
https://secure.ucs.org/a/2025-reject-anti-science-attacks-budget-bill

#wclivestream
#saveamericasforecasts

Before you continue to YouTube

Show threadDoug BostromJun 1, 2025

@alienghic

A huge doff and sweep of the hat to everybody who pitched in.

This event was eerily responsive to ideas in this essay:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-path-forward-to-save-american-bio-medical-research

Being beaten up by health and weather is close to everyone's heart. There is huge latent energy here.

[The climate and weather livestream is catalysis, moving a public reaction where otherwise ingredients may remain inert.]

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research

Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

TPM - Talking Points Memo