Weird, huh?

[mac56]

All those right wing Floridians who claim that "Big Government don't do nothin' right" don't have any trouble trusting the National Weather Service. Weird, huh?

[dchill]

1. They don't mind government aid, either...

When it's coming their way.

[Phoenix61]

2. I have a friend who says that

Says he knows the government couldn't manage single payer health care. I pointed out that he's on Tri-Care, a government program, that he likes, and he mumbled, "well that's different, I earned that."

[riversedge]

3. Harvey Looms, and So Do Trump Cuts to Weather Research..& National Weather Service.........

Hurricane Harvey looms, and so do Trump cuts to National Weather Service, NOAA and forecasting agencies http://www.newsweek.com/harvey-approaches-trump-weather-cuts-loom-654844


Hurricane Harvey Looms, and So Do Trump Cuts to Weather Research
By Matthew Cooper On 8/24/17 at 3:22 PM


Hurricane Harvey is strengthening as it approaches the Texas coast, and the massive storm is underscoring another big disturbance on the way: the battle over President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to the National Weather Service.

Charged with providing weather forecasts and warnings, the National Weather Service also makes its data available to hundreds of companies that use it for everything from smartphone applications to agricultural equipment. Trump earlier this year proposed cutting its budget by 6 percent and that of its parent agency, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), by a mammoth 16 percent. It was an unprecedented proposal in the National Weather Service’s storied history, which extends back to 1890, when it was founded as the U.S. Weather Bureau.

Trump also proposed huge subcuts for programs that engage in computer modeling of storms, as well as observation of storms and dissemination of data. Tsunami research and prediction would be cut, along with supercomputing investments and a program to extend more accurate modeling to 30 days from 16, which could have huge benefits for everything from the insurance to the transportation industries.

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The Trump proposal “is opposite to the ‘leave it better than you found it’ philosophy. This is take the money while you can, and let someone else in the future put Humpty Dumpty (aka NOAA) together again,” David Titley, director of the Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk at Penn State and a retired Navy rear admiral, told Climate Central, a consortium.
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Already, the U.S. is behind Europe in its forecast accuracy, and further cuts to research would likely leave the country farther behind in what’s been called “climate intelligence.” The National Weather Service’s main forecasting model, the Global Forecasting System, has seen a major drop-off in accuracy. The White House’s budget proposal would only make it worse. It seeks to cut 26 percent from NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which supports data collection, climate and science, as well as research into more accurate weather forecasting models. The budget blueprint also would cut $513 million from NOAA’s satellite division, the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, a 22 percent reduction.........................