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by Mobius01 348 days ago
Is this an attempt at controlling the narrative around climate change, in line with the impacts at NOAA and other climate-related government agencies?
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Don’t look up!
The timing is just, it's atrocious. Okay, at this very moment, I say we sit tight and assess.
^ I’m pretty sure this is a quote from the movie Don’t Look Up, if that’s why y’all are downvoting this comment
That's what got us here in the first place, maybe stop doing that.
"Sit tight and assess" as used above is probably a reference to the movie "Don't Look Up" from a few years ago, which (heavy-handedly) parodied administrations like Trump I (and which unortunately seem much less like parody in the Trump II era).
having literally never heard of this, despite being in North America, it's a good idea to not make assumptions about who's seen which pop culture thing.
To where? Stock market ath and free AI for the masses?
Yes. Quoting Projct 225:

> Break Up NOAA ... NOAA consists of six main offices ... 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 U.S. prosperity. This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of 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. NOAA today boasts that it is a provider of environmental information services, a provider of environmental stewardship services, and a leader in applied scientific research. Each of these functions could be provided commercially, likely at lower cost and higher quality.

https://envirodatagov.org/project-2025-national-oceanic-and-...

Tldr: shut down NOAA to suppress climate change evidence, research, and preparedness; outsource to private industry the remaining parts that are considered directly useful for commerce.

Is it any wonder that the CEO of Accuweather Barry Myers was a Trump donor who became a NOAA head administrator appointee in Trump's first term? The appointment fortunately failed. Now they're trying again.

If we survive this, these people will go down in history as monsters.
What if they're the ones who survive and rewrite history
That's what they're betting on. It's why suppressing free public access to knowledge and education is part of the agenda.
Yet, many even here on HN will if not outright defend this, then let it slide, because there is one overarching goal which must not be compromised at any cost: to own the libs.
Then they will do everything in their power to pretend that they didn’t drag us into this.
Given that despite open knowledge nothing was done for >50 years about climate change, there's plenty of blame to go around. Hell, I like to compare the feedback vs the forcing and the feedback has been going down since 2018. Imho that can only mean the tipping point is very close.
History isn't written by the victors. It's written by historians.
Historians using highly biased sources from the victors.
Oh geez that… that is upsetting
No, this was cancelled by congress in 2015 and switched to the JPSS program which is running and active.
Could more than one thing be goin on?