Project 2026 and NOAA
Hurricanes are news. But wait. There's more.
Americans rely on weather forecasts. And when there is a threat of severe weather, Americans rely most on NOAA for storm updates.
The Project 2025 handbook covering NOAA starts with, ” Break up NOAA.” This is the same Project 2025 that The Heritage Foundation wrote, which included many former Trump administration officials, a plan that Trump praised as the blueprint for the new administration should we give him a chance, the same Project 2025 that he’s been unsuccessful at distancing himself from.
They want to privatize weather forecasting. Forgetting for a moment that this only benefits the wealthy who will invest, it will likely put weather forecasting behind a paywall, and free users will suffer through ads. That’s only part of the downside of eliminating a government service we all rely on.
The real reason they want to disband NOAA is buried a bit further in the Project 2025 NOAA text. “Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and as such, is harmful to future US prosperity.“
Read that again. Let it sink in.
But wait. There’s more.
“This industry’s mission of emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit around planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless. But its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized.”
To Republicans, climate change still isn’t a thing. Climate change, they conclude, is bad for business. Never mind the new industries that will be borne from investing in renewable energy. But hey, if a few billion people on the planet die off because of a climate becoming more inhospitable to life, well, that’s not a bad thing because there won't be competition for the food and water scarcity that will result from climate change. Right? SMH
Let’s all join in with the rapidly increasing number of current and former Republican, Democratic, and Unaffiliated leaders who are sounding the alarm about a second Trump term. Vote.
That’s my take. You’re welcome.