In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models
The profit model is probably charging government entities for weather information that they used to get for free to help with disaster planning and such
They are gonna privatize infrastructure to their pals, who will employ some of the same personnel but on worse conditions, gut everything not immediately profitable and provide worse service for more state money. They know well how to do it, they did it million times in eastern Europe.
The problem with this is that weather forecasting isn’t really profitable
The profit model is probably charging government entities for weather information that they used to get for free to help with disaster planning and such
They are gonna privatize infrastructure to their pals, who will employ some of the same personnel but on worse conditions, gut everything not immediately profitable and provide worse service for more state money. They know well how to do it, they did it million times in eastern Europe.