#defundscience — Public Fediverse posts
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This has to be seen in a wider, #DefundScience, #ClimateChangeDenial perspective:
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(7/7)
...on thriving oceans and productive fisheries for their jobs, businesses, and seafood dinners, and our oceans depend on #NOAA,”..."
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Do read on:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters
1) *👉#RachelMaddow on the dismantling of the Fourth Estate in the #US (excellent report:)👈*
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(6/n)
...non-profit #Oceana, said doing so “will have a ripple effect that sacrifices the communities, jobs, and coastal economies that rely on healthy oceans. And the #NationalWeatherService, part of #Noaa, provides daily weather forecasts and 👉lifesaving storm alerts that protect our communities across the country and mariners at sea.”👈
"...“Millions of Americans depend...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(5/n)
...prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services.
He also argued there is 👉no legal authority to abolish NOAA or reduce its budget👈, outside of reducing it through #Congress...."
'...#BethLowell, #US vice-president of the #OceanConservation...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(4/n)
...by several former #Trump staffers [and coordinated by the infamous rightwing #HeritageFoundation], has 👉called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to #US prosperity” for its role in #ClimateScience.👈 [aka "#BigOil" and tRump's crucial #DrillBabyDrill campaign.]
...it’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(3/n)
...concerns of downsizing at the agency.
“They apparently just sort of 👉walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems👈, as they have in other agencies,” [e.g. the #US #Treasury]...
They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”
#Project2025, written...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(2/n)
...envisaged at #NOAA by #MAGA's #Project2025 also means less data can be collected, analyzed, and provided.
Via @theguardianrss
"Staffers with #ElonMusk’s “department of government efficiency” (#Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the #NationalOceanicAndAtmosphericAdministration (#Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(1/n)
👉*Trump-Musk duumvirate grabs weather control*👈
...or at least data access thereof
Public access to crucial weather data might soon be a thing of the past. Jointly with the multiple- pronged attack on the free press 1), reports on e.g. #ClimateChange induced devastations caused by hurricanes, flashfloods, or raging wildfires might be "contained." The staff "slaughter..."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters