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PhD atmospheric scientist 🌩️🌀 | Red Sox fan | National Spelling Bee finalist '97-'98 | MS State alumna | Cat mom 🐈⬛🐈
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P.S. The last 8 years look even more impressive when you show only major (Cat-3+) landfalls. There've been 10, including a whopping 7 that were at least Cat 4.
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The plan to eliminate OAR as a line office and terminate certain activities would also run afoul of statutory authorities, specifically 15 USC 8512 and other codes under Title 15, Chapter 111, Subchapter 1.
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Withholding congressionally approved funding would likely be illegal, but Trump has already attempted such an act, known as impoundment.
If Congress cannot pass a budget by the end of September, a government shutdown is possible.
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And of course.
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These @nws.noaa.gov offices are now missing their "Warning Coordination Meteorologist" — the primary local official responsible for public safety.
Buffalo NY
Wilmington NC
Houston*
Jacksonville FL
Bismarck ND
Marquette MI
Davenport IA
Elko NV
*Houston is now missing both its MIC & WCM.
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These @nws.noaa.gov offices are now missing their "Meteorologist in Charge" — the top position in charge of managing the local office:
New York City
Cleveland
Columbia SC
Portland ME
Wilmington OH
Brownsville TX
El Paso TX
Houston*
Knoxville TN
Tampa Bay
Dodge City KS
St Louis MO
Medford OR
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This is far, far worse than "merely" wanting to give some private-sector actor a monopoly.
These people are science deniers. They don't think our field is even legitimate.
I think we have to count on the courts to stop rogue dogues and focus on the budget committees instead.
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Project 2025 on atmospheric science ("climate change alarm industry"):
"This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable."
They literally don't think the weather can be predicted or planned for.
I'm at a loss. ☹️
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As a software developer, I have a VERY low opinion of any "computer geek" who is too lazy or too unskilled to identify and solve problems without wiping the whole system.
The United States Government is that computer, except millions of lives and livelihoods are at stake.
Something to consider.
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If you take your computer to repair shop and their approach for all problems is to do a full reformat, reinstall the OS, hand the machine back to you in two hours, hope YOU backed up your files first, leave YOU to reinstall all your software, AND BILL YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE...
Find another shop.
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And another thing I did if I reluctantly had to reformat was this.
I had another machine that could run what I needed it to run until my regular one was good to go.
I knew that I would need to keep "operations" going, so I prepared. I did not blithely wipe out one without having another going.
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I did not remove and reinstall whole programs without first backing up data and configuration settings.
I did not delete entire folders without knowing what they contained.
I did not reformat the hard drive unless I had absolutely no choice.
And if I did reformat, I backed up everything first.
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And to avoid alienating half the country, we can't make it a partisan thing. We can't offend all the Republican voters who are fine with science by essentially becoming a Democratic interest group. There still is bipartisan support for most science, so we have to be careful and not torch that. /X