Is there anything beyond "vote and encourage others to vote" that an average American citizen could do to help prevent such a tragedy from occurring?
NOAA is a globally relevant working US service, and while one can live without eyes... it makes life more complicated when hurricanes pop up without warning.
As an organization it is data driven, where countless airlines, maritime shipping, and agricultural entities can't properly function without the service.
Any states that lose NOAA will also see just about every insurance premium balloon into the stratosphere.
Someone is letting the dog drive, lol =)
If they do this maybe the blue states could absorb NOAA into some kind of sub-federal system to keep it alive until sanity can be restored? And then charge the red states for weather info - many of those red states are vulnerable to hurricanes & tornadoes.
That's only the beginning of what Project 2025 woudl dissolve. It's a fair debate what the worst ideas are in project 2025. It's 1984 and Mein Kampf rolled into one.
Because people don’t like to read the articles and I think it’s worth knowing…
Trump and the GOP already tried doing this in the last admin.
He tried to appoint the CEO of AccuWeather, who publically lobbied against NOAA, to the head of NOAA.
This would be an incredible act of vandalism. The hostility towards science, and specifically efforts to monitor and mitigate climate change, coming from the right of American politics is frankly terrifiying.
It’s not free, they print money, thereby devaluing the currency to pay for this.
Losing the NOAA is sad, but if it saves money so we can cut taxes on high income earners, seems like a worthwhile trade off. /s
This seems like standard election year fear mongering and ignores much of what NOAA is and does while fixating on how it will affect the individual. Weather forecasts for you and me is just a side effect of their providing weather forecasts for all those air planes and boats along with keeping up to date information on various hazards like that new antenna tower planes need to watch out for or that a major storm system coming through the midwest is likely to cause a great deal of sediment to collect in certain areas of the Mississippi so decrease the load of your barges if you want to make it to New Orleans.
Business and international trade partners would put a great deal of pressure on any administration which threatened to screw with NOAA to this extent and I don't believe any administration would actually follow through with such a thing, it would have massive negative effect on trade and would probably cost the US far more than it would save. This is just politics exploiting that most people don't actually know what NOAA does.
What is the problem. Isn't it well known that free market will provide better, cheaper and more efficient service? After all we trust free market with other things, so why not with weather forecasting?
It's why I would never vote for them. Nothing surpasses the importance of our collective existence—not for one race or religion, but for all humanity, and for the only intelligent life we know exists in the universe. Anyone whose policies threaten our stability does not earn my vote. We are on a pale blue dot in the vastness of space, and we must honor our duty as caretakers of this planet. No amount of tax cuts can make up for it.