It's going to be fun when all weather forecasting is private, and a hurricane heads for Florida, then they start to charge $100 per day for forecasting.
Flying planes into a hurricanes probably costs like $20M a year, and it will be billed at $80M a year.
Can't imagine we will have multiple competing hurricane hunter planes...
> He backed Trump due to the president's commitment to the rule of law, he said, but now Mr Ripp thinks Trump is flouting the correct procedures for reducing the federal workforce.
Should someone who ignores a simple fact like Trump being a convicted felon and casts their vote based to Trump's "commitment to the rule of law" be allowed on a plane that flies dangerous weather?
Project 2025's plan for NOAA is in the Department of Commerce chapter:
> Break Up NOAA. The single biggest Department of Commerce agency outside of decennial census years is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components. NOAA garners $6.5 billion of the department’s $12 billion annual operational budget and accounts for more than half of the department’s personnel in non-decadal Census years (2021 figures).
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> The NWS provides data the private companies use and should focus on its data-gathering services. Because private companies rely on these data, the NWS should fully commercialize its forecasting operations.
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> Downsize the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. OAR provides theoretical science, as opposed to the applied science of the National Hurricane Center. OAR is, however, the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism. The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded. OAR is a large network of research laboratories, an undersea research center, and several joint research institutes with universities. These operations should be reviewed with an aim of consolidation and reduction of bloat.
Flying planes into a hurricanes probably costs like $20M a year, and it will be billed at $80M a year.
Can't imagine we will have multiple competing hurricane hunter planes...