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| 340563 | 21050 | Gutting NOAA | 24 | Bruce Fowler | Mar 13, 2025 | 2025-03-13T16:16:20-0400 | Skegg said: This point is critical. All private weather forecasting companies that provide forecasts for the United States rely on raw data provided by NOAA, and by "rely" I mean "would not be able to forecast the weather without it." If that were to stop it would almost instantly kill all private weather reporting services in the US, not just surf forecasting. The expense and logistics that would be required to build out private versions of that infrastructure is beyond the financial capacity for any of those companies. Even if a company did somehow find the money, it would take several years (potentially decades) to implement and build up comparable capacity... and that assumes there's a viable market dynamic to support such an investment. Click to expand... It's is massively shortsighted if not downright irresponsible to be doing a 78 RPM hack job of the Fed. Is there some Waste? Fraud? Redundancy? Sure, there is in ANY government bureaucracy on Earth. The rash moves being made are supported by the disinformation disseminated by the White House and their favorite state tv agency Fox. We get the strategy is to deregulate, make cuts to Social Security to the point it is so handicapped people are willing to have it privatized rather than abolished. By comparison, who needs NOAA? Entire industries above and beyond commercial fishing, aviation, agriculture....... just for starters. This hack job overthrowing of what was not only familiar, but vital & relied on is just in its infancy. For the record....... I'm Unregistered with NO party affiliation. |