Project 2025: Dismantle NOAA over Sharpie-Gate
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists refused to alter a hurricane's projected track over a president's tantrum with a Sharpie. Here's the payback. (Scroll to the end to listen.)
Remember Sharpie-gate? The one where 45 altered the National Hurricane Center’s projected path of Hurricane Dorian with a Sharpie?
Because when the president tweeted that it would hit Alabama, goddammit these obstinate weather scientists were going to project it hitting Alabama.
Project 2025 outlines their payback:
(National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration agencies) form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity. This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable.
That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized.
NOAA today boasts that it is a provider of environmental information services, a provider of environmental stewardship services, and a leader in applied scientific research. Each of these functions could be provided commercially, likely at lower cost and higher quality.
Project 2025, page 675
We’ll return to this section again for a bigger, more thoughtful drill down, but today can we just vent? Is that okay? I mean, what the actual FUCK?!?
Yes, I understand that the ‘private sector’ already has this thing called AccuWeather. (Can I just vent again and say HOW SICK I AM OF READING THE WORDS PRIVATE SECTOR?!?!?) News agencies pay for access to storm modeling and reporting during hurricane season, among other offerings. Readers living anywhere near a hurricane zone have probably seen it on their local news.
But what most Americans don’t know is that the guys who own AccuWeather are from State College, Pennsylvania. They’ve given gobs of money to Rick Santorum, the odious former PA senator, failed Republican presidential candidate and hater of all weather scientists employed by the federal government.
Because - horrors - federal weather scientists are ‘one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry’ and engage in the ‘fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable.’
Santorum has been trying to hobble federal scientists at NOAA since 2005.
This Project 2025 policy recommendation is an example of how Republicans will doggedly introduce the same failed idea again and again and again, in as many ways as they can, until they win.
Project 2025 decries initiatives like rebates for clean energy because “it awards some businesses over others.” But Christo-fascist Republicans have no problem taking money from taxpayers and rewarding their own donors (like the owners of AccuWeather.)
“I think what you see out of Santorum — in particular the weather data thing — is that some private businesses should be anointed to make tons of money off the taxpayers,” said open-government advocate Carl Malamud.
I also love this quote from POLITICO:
Malamud, who has pushed federal entities such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, Patent and Trademark Office, Smithsonian Institution and court system to make their data more freely available, called Santorum’s bill “one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard.”
What a dismantling of NOAA could mean for YOU:
Government-funded climate research will be disbanded.
All references to climate change will be scrubbed from federal websites.
The National Hurricane Center, one of the key sources of storm data for many living in hurricane-prone areas, will be disbanded and privatized.
Weather scientists will be vetted based upon their political affiliations. If a conservative president makes a prediction, everyone must go along with it, even when it endangers lives.
So basically, you or someone you love could die in a storm that was projected to hit you but because the president didn’t like that answer, scientists altered the projected path.
Coastal cities and hurricane-prone areas could have even more damage because they were given inaccurate forecasts and didn’t adequately prepare.
Private businesses will be awarded taxpayer funding based upon denial of climate change and their willingness to endorse the Republican Christo-fascist agenda in their reporting.
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" the demonic climate change movement"... as Mike Johnson said. Let's all pray.
Like you said these Christian radicals are more than happy to hand over our tax dollars to Oil and Gas.
I used to not believe in climate change either, roughly 20 years ago..... But after reading, gathering facts, practicing critical thinking, visually seeing the before and after pictures around the world of how we've robbed and ruined Earth....... how Corporate America steals and pollutes with impunity...... it is so fucking obvious that we are creating this problem, humans are always the problem.
Thank you for doing this. I've read the first 600 pages. I get really upset reading it and I have to take a break. It is completely nonsensical that they would gut something that keeps us safe and informed. Even more due to their fake climate change. What the hell I'm I taking about. It's the fucking money.
When I started reading this everything that has come to fruition by the Republicans, this seems to have been the plan all along. This is their crowning achievement. To gut the United States Government. And replace it with everything laid out in Project 2025. Billionaires run the show and politicians are paid to support the Billionaires.