The white house is preparaing to cancel the leases for important weather forecasting offices, including the noaa center for weather and climate prediction in college park, maaryland, mine Verge and AxiosCiting Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And it’s just the latest bad news for Americans who like accurate weather forecasts and not dying from Severe Storms.
The building lease on the chopping block including the national weather service’s national centers for environmental prediction, which producers forecasts for the air force, the new, and the faa, and the faa, and the faa Verge. That are, of course, the kind of organizations that relay on accurate weather forecasting to perform. Cuts at the faa have alredy raised growing concerns about an increase in aviation accidents. And more Slash-Burn Tactics by Dog Aren’T Going to Make Anyone Safer.
There’s some confusion about where the noaa leases have actually been cut yet or wheether it’s just in the pipeline. But that kind of confusion is fairly typical of what’s happy over the past month as elon musk’s dog has taken a chainsaw to the us federal government. Contracts have been canceled, and thirds of workers have lost their jobs as president donald trump has tasked musk with cutting $ 2 trillion from the federal budget.
Trump and Musk Insist Doge is just cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse,” but the oligarchs have counted to present any evidence of fraud in what they’ve announ. In reality, musk appears to be making a unilateral decision Over what should be funded, a complete illlegal move that circumvents congress, which has the actual power to spend money on behahalf of the government.
About 10% of Noaa Employees Have Alarady Been Laid off, According to the Verge, and Reports Indicate Doge is Trying to Eliminate 50% of the Agency. That’s obvious a terribble idea if you want to have accurate weather forecasts, but it’s become if aggrainedly clea Life.
An anonymous noaa employee who spoke with axios described the cuts as a “nightmare scenario” with another worker telling the verge that “you may not know all the work that goes on If these cuts continue, you will feel them personally at some point when that work is gone. “
Another Building that Cold Get Its Lease Cancelled is the Radar Operations Center in Norman, Oklahoma, which is run by noaa but partners with the department of transportation and the change of defends to maininta Weather radars. But it’s not like the faa or army need radar, right?