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This is because Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick wants to approve all contracts. But he only looks at about two dozen a week and there are 5,700 contracts expiring this year. The crippling of NOAA, which is heavily reliant on contracts, is separate and apart from the WH plan to destroy the agency.
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Plus, Johnny Cash recorded a theme song for the series 60 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuuc...
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OMB Director Russ Vought is unusually focused on the National Climate Assessment because he believes it hurts the fossil fuel industry in court. He wants climate denialists to write a report that touts the "benefits" of global warming while overplaying the economic costs of climate policy.
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White House plan preserves National Weather Service, but also positions its work as if it's not directly related to climate. Climate monitoring systems on satellites under development would be eliminated under proposal. So would weather research at NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science.
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And there are potential benefits for Elon Musk. Privatization of more satellite work. The Traffic Coordination System for Space (basically air traffic control for space) shifted over to private sector.
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There are five categories of climate denial:
1/ it’s not real
2/ it’s not us
3/ it’s not bad
4/ we can’t fix it
5/ it’s too late
They might sound different but do not be deceived, they all have the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible.
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“If you care about transportation, or energy, or food, or health, or communities, or rural areas or Indigenous tribal nations — whatever it is you care about, it's got that chapter,” @katharinehayhoe.com told me, describing the US Global Change Research Program's National Climate Assessment.
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West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice attended Trump's coal event at the White House. As a coal baron, he and his family are likely to personally profit from Trump's actions on coal. His businesses have been struggling mightily in recent years and owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in pollution fines.
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He also claims that regulations are putting coal miners out of work, when it is chiefly competition from cheaper natural gas and some renewables that is shutting down those coal-burning power plants and coal mines.
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If you are at NOAA or any other federal agency and work on anything related to climate, I want to securely connect. You can reach me through Signal here:
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After disastrous election results in WI Supreme Court race and Tesla's far worse than expected delivery results, Trump is now telling his inner circle that Musk will leave soon. www.politico.com/news/magazin...