MAKE AMERICA GRIEVE AGAIN

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Blackapple — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:33:57 GMT

From <https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/ted-cruz-ensured-trump-spending-bill-slashed-weather-forecasting-funding/ar-AA1I9oyP?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=686c685b94274aaaa1f1e0bc3e4f8dbb&ei=26> A further $50m in Noaa grants to study climate-related impacts on oceans, weather systems and coastal ecosystems was also removed. Cruz was contacted by the Guardian with questions about these cuts and his trip to Greece. “Ted Cruz has spent years doing big oil’s bidding, gutti... [ More ]

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Think — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:43:29 GMT

Back in the day they didn't have all the expensive computers and crappy computer models and they got the 3 day forecasts spot on. Now they are lucky to get the forecasts correct 12 hours out. Some of them blame global warming for their incompetents but we all know that's just an excuse. Now they are shouting "The administration is cutting our waste fraud and abuse. Oh no! Youre all going to die! Youre all going to die!" If only we would listen and send them forkli... [ More ]

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Blackapple — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:47:51 GMT

. Now meteorology experts are urgently warning that the Trump administration s staff firings and funding cuts at the National Weather Service (and its parent, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) threaten to disrupt these crucial operations and turn back the clock on forecasting.

Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,

wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2.

Ultimately, storm experts say, disruption caused by existing and proposed cuts will hit multiple fronts. An understaffed and underfunded NWS could mean that a tornado warning doesn t come in time, that a hurricane forecast is off just enough so that the wrong coastal areas are evacuated or that flights are less likely to be routed around turbulence. The net result is going to be massive economic harm, said climate scientist Daniel Swain during one of his regular talks hosted on YouTube . As we break these things, eventually it will become painfully and unignorably obvious what we ve broken and how important it was. And it s going to be unbelievably expensive in the scramble to try and get it back and we might not be able to get it back.

The NWS punches above its economic weight, too: it costs the average American about $4 per year. It s a cup of coffee, says JoAnn Becker, president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union that represents the NWS and several NOAA offices. With one third of the U.S. economy from farming to trucking to tourism being sensitive to weather and climate, the NWS provides an overall benefit of $100 billion to the economy . This is roughly 10 times what the service costs to run, according to an American Meteorological Society white paper.

From https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-trumps-national-weather-service-cuts-could-cost-lives/... [ More ]