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US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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300 points drewr | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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righthand ◴[29 Jun 25 00:36 UTC] No.44409378[source]▶
This is part of Project 2025 to destroy the NOAA. [0]

> Break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

> "fully commercialize" the National Weather Service's forecasting operations.[1]

[0] https://www.project2025.observer/?search=NOAA

[1] https://www.project2025.observer/?search=Weather

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ivape ◴[29 Jun 25 00:38 UTC] No.44409385[source]▶
What in the actual fuck. I can’t believe they are actually doing all those little petty things.
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TheOtherHobbes ◴[29 Jun 25 00:52 UTC] No.44409451[source]▶
They're not just petty, they're wildly impractical.

You can't privatise NOAA and the services it offers. It cannot work at an equivalent level as a private service. Its effectiveness relies on being able to decide what's valuable in purely scientific terms, and those terms don't align with short-term corporate greed.

But if you ask these cranks what NOAA actually does, they'll have no clue. They're not just evil, they're stupid - the smallest, most banal bureaucrats, cosplaying radicals.

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kelnos ◴[29 Jun 25 00:56 UTC] No.44409473[source]▶
They're not trying to privatize NOAA; they're trying to shut it down.

NWS is what they're trying to privatize.

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1. righthand ◴[29 Jun 25 01:00 UTC] No.44409497[source]▶
Yes the conflation is my bad because I think this move is relative to NWS privatization, which is what might strike most people. You can’t have the government predicting and tracking major weather events and issues, those are the biggest datasets to sell access too.

For other NOAA fallout effects in the government, a Potus wouldn’t have to rob from the FEMA funds if there’s nothing for FEMA to prepare for, in that FEMA cannot say we need to spend money to help flooding in Texas or hurricane damage in Florida. No cancel that and put that money into the tax break or 1% monetary “business investment” funnel fund. [0] [1]

[0] https://www.project2025.observer/?search=flood

[1] https://www.project2025.observer/?search=Fema&sort=agency-de...