Science article
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-seeks-end-climate-research-premier-u-s-climate-agency
NYT article
The proposal from the Office of Management and Budget would abolish the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office at NOAA, one of the world’s premiere Earth sciences research centers.
A budget allocation of just over $170 million, down from about $485 million in 2024, would hobble science as varied as early warning systems for natural disasters, science education for students in kindergarten through high school, and the study of the Arctic, where temperatures have increased nearly four times as fast as the rest of the planet over the past four decades. “At this funding level, O.A.R. is eliminated as a line office,” the proposal states.
Now it’s just the National Administration.
Jokes aside: I’m real worried about this. Not just in the “clinate change is coming” way either.
I rely on NOAA Emergency Alerts and Severe Weather prediction for safety. We get nasty weather, starting in this time of year, and I don’t know if I can trust my weather radio anymore to alert my family if there is a situation we need to be aware of.
I know the feeling, the Ohio river is right across the street from me right now and it really shouldn’t be.
Rivers that don’t stay put make me nervous. Luckily we’re something like 30 feet above the banks.
They want to privatize all these critical services or just strip them for parts if they can’t deliver a profit. Scumbags
I did end up getting into ham radio, and one of my motivations was to keep in contact during a weather emergency as we get wild weather this time of year too. Thankfully there’s a repeater nearby that talks about the weather and has spotters getting together when severe weather does come. I mostly rely on them these days. I think they are led by NWS staff, but amateurs from all over the area talk on there.
I really should be doing this. I’ve talked about it for years. I guess I didn’t need a license to listen at least.
The technician (lowest license level) license is fairly easy if you take some online practice quizzes, or study the old-fashioned way if you want. But you’re right, you don’t need a license just to listen. A Baofeng handheld radio and maybe an upgraded antenna should be all you need to listen to local repeaters. You can look up your area online and find the frequencies and settings to access them. Transmitting without a license can get you into trouble, but exceptions are made for emergencies.
Got my GT-5R today. I found a club that hosts tests monthly, next one is next week, I’m not sure I’ll do that one, but May is on the docket. Thanks for the motivation.
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“Now we can prop up the hollowed out husk to exploit the integrity and legitimacy they’ve built up to more effectively trick people into plowing headlong off the cliff that is the status quo. Y’know, ‘run it like a business’!”In short, Trump would prefer to disband NOAA.
“NOOO STOP RESEARCHING THE CLIMATE, YOU SHOULD ONLY REPORT THE WEATHER!!!”
“That’s what I’m doing, though! I’m reporting the weather, and the weather just keeps getting shittier everywhere!”
“NOOO NOT LIKE THAT, METEOROLOGY IS WOKE NOW!!!”
ChatGPT will solve the earth system so it’s just wasted money at this point.
“ChatGPT - help me! The flooding is horrible! What should I do?!”
“Seek higher ground.”
“And?..”
“You could bring glue.”
“Glue?”
“Make a pizza. It’ll warm you up and sticky-sticky-sticky nom-nom-nom-nom-nom!”
that’s not good if NASA is removed from the equation and suddenly only Elon Musk becomes the messenger between Earth and Nibiru.
Having the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration means that you own the oceans and the atmosphere. Just need to stop wasting money on all that pesky research.
They can just make sacrifices to the Old Gods to ensure a good harvest. The LIBERAL AGENDA has made things far more complicated than they need to be.
Waiter I’ll have a cheeseburger please, hold the patty.
NOAA without “Ocean and Atmosphere” research is “cheeseburger, but just the plain patties, no burger, no cheese, no pickles please”
Probably trying to relocate money to the military.
Either that or turn it into another appendage of the military industrial complex by making them instead research ways to set the atmosphere on fire
NOAA is famously not an appendage of the military industrial complex. That’s why they have thousands of Navy and Air Force soldiers in their research centers.
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Zack Labe on Mastodon has been fired, he was one of my “follows” there.
