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mainstream Media Blaming Climate Change For Texas Floods | News Radio 1200 WOAI
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Marc Morano with the Climate Depot disagrees. He thinks that with the narratives that Trump cuts to the National Weather Service caused the ...
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At number five, of the top 10 ways the administration is wrecking the country, we have the massive DOGE cuts to the federal workforce and federal agencies everywhere.
Elon Musk and his lot of unqualified, unvetted, unrestrained tech bros have taken a chainsaw to any number of federal grants, federal contracts, federal departments, and federal jobs without the slightest understanding of the human consequences. Musk may have held himself harmless during these massive cuts — he managed to use his position of influence to expand his billions in government contracts at Starlink — but everyone else was made to suffer. Now he is gone, but the wrecking crew continues its work.
DOGE accidentally cut our nuclear safety staff, then had to rush to rehire them. They cut specialists in bird flu and then had to rush and rehire them. Remember those coal tax credits I mentioned earlier? Well, they’re cutting mine safety efforts – making dangerous work, even more so.
They DOGE-d USAID and diminished our soft power around the world. They are dismantling the Department of Education, and selling off our children’s education, piece by piece.
And they would cut NASA in half. There is no more high-profile example of America’s scientific and technological prowess than our space program. And sadly, there is no better example of its deliberate forfeiture.
In my lifetime alone, our space program was the first to plant a flag on the moon. We launched the first solar probe. We took the first photos and landed the first rover on Mars. We are sending more humans into orbit than ever, and on track to land the first human on Mars. We did those things not because they were easy.
No, we did those things, as President Kennedy said – because they were hard.
Because space exploration can teach us things about our life on earth that propel innovation here at home, innovation that allows us to travel faster, live longer, and live better. And because exploring space can provide the most profound thoughts of our place in the universe, and whether amidst all of that we are alone.
This agency that has brought us such hope and excitement – and pride – will be brought low. It may be one small step for DOGE, but it represents one giant leap backward for mankind.
The Trump administration has also paused the hiring of critical seasonal firefighting staff, and laid off probationary employees, just as we begin another devastating fire season. They cut staff and programs at NOAA and the National Weather Service – hurting early earthquake warning, early warning of all disasters, warning that is pivotal when disasters strike, like it did in Texas this week, in North Carolina months ago, or in Los Angeles in January.
They cut staff who run the phones at Social Security while closing regional offices, making it harder for seniors to get the benefits they paid into their entire life. Because that was the goal. That was the goal.
And for all the pain that DOGE has inflicted and continues to inflict, the only thing that bastard agency has really served to accomplish is making government less effective, less efficient, and less trustworthy. Because more than anything else, the DOGE bloodletting has killed the trust of countless Americans.
Trust that the federal jobs and programs they relied upon would continue. Trust that they might be paid less than private sector workers to do the work they love, to unravel new mysteries in space, in the oceans, in our bodies and in ourselves, but that they could rely upon the government as an employer, that they would be insulated from political and partisan considerations, that they would not become some ideological arm of a president or his party, or its collateral damage. Now, that trust is now gone.
And the loss of that talent and that trust, just might be the most expensive loss of all. ...
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project 2025 plans to dismantle the federal agency that tracks hurricanes
Right-wing media have attacked NOAA and climate science for decades
Special PROGRAMSCLIMATE & ENERGY
WRITTEN BY ALLISON FISHER
PUBLISHED 05/31/24
:{:{The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency that predicts changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coastlines and provides data that informs lifesaving forecasts such as tracking hurricanes, is in the crosshairs of Project 2025, the conservative battle plan for a potential second Trump presidency which describes NOAA as a “colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”}:
But researchers have pushed back on these charges and defended NOAA’s climate data and meteorological work — while forecasters are predicting an “extremely active” Atlantic hurricane season and experts say this summer could rival last year’s record heat.}:
Project 2025’s call to dismantle NOAA by eliminating or privatizing key functions of the agency is the endgame of years of attempts by conservatives and right-wing media to attack the credibility of the agency and the veracity of the data it produces. It also illustrates that the conservative plan is not just to dismantle U.S. climate policy, but also to scrub the climate data that underpins it.
- ## Project 2025 calls to end NOAA’s “climate alarmism” and “fully commercialize its forecasting operations”
- Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan to guide the next GOP presidential administration organized by right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation, is the conservative movement’s most robust policy and staffing proposal for a potential second Trump White House.
- Project 2025’s chapter attacking NOAA was penned by Thomas Gilman, a former Trump Commerce Department official who recommends that the agency “should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories.” Among other recommendations for how NOAA “should be broken up and downsized,” Gilman’s chapter for Project 2025 calls for the National Weather Service to “fully commercialize its forecasting operations”; demands that research from the National Hurricane Center and the National Environmental Satellite Service be reviewed to ensure it is “presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate”; and suggests the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research “should be disbanded” as “the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism.” Project 2025, *Mandate for Leadership*, [2023]
- :{:{Experts say Project 2025’s cuts to NOAA could have devastating impacts on climate research and weather forecasting. E&E News notes: “The National Hurricane Center’s mission is centered on informing and warning the public about potentially deadly storms, and as part of that work, it has connected the effects of climate change to hurricane intensity. The brushback it gets in the Project 2025 playbook speaks to past insinuations from Republicans that government agencies are manipulating data to make climate change appear worse.” }:
Speaking to The Guardian, former NOAA official Andrew Rosenberg said the agency “basically reports the science as the scientific evidence accumulates and has been quite cautious about reporting climate effects,” adding, “It’s not pushing some agenda.” And meteorologist Chris Gloninger said Project 2025’s recommendations are “a sign that the far right has ‘no interest in climate truth.’” E&E News, [4/10/24; The Guardian, 4/26/24]}:
- ## Right-wing media’s long war on climate and temperature data