A reminder that this is still how they think.
Hereâs a fact check OF a fact check about Project 2025, something that has been stated recently will gut the National Hurricane Center.
USA Todayâs fact check of that claim
Now when I first ran across this link, I thought, hmmmâŚare liberal Youtubers making up stuff to sell their position as a hurricane approaches? Maybe so. Then I read the article and actual text from Project 2025.
Project 2025 âdoes not call for the elimination ofâ the National Hurricane Center, Heritage Foundation spokesperson Ellen Keenan told USA TODAY.
Not in the text, this part of the fact check is correct. The text calls for review of it as well as other agencies and downsize or move resources around as needed. But then I see:
Data collected by the department should be presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate.
Well, that set off some alarm bells in my head. They arenât actively proposing to shut it down, but there does seem to be an agenda here.
Project 2025 accuses NOAA of âclimate alarmismâ and calls for it to be "broken up and downsized.â âThat is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions,â the playbook says of the agency.
I read all this as exactly how MAGA Republicans in power have been treating anything tied to climate change. They arenât completely cutting things out, only the parts that are inconvenient to their agenda. Which of course is terrible science, and will absolutely affect the ability to learn and respond to future threats.
USA Today is a tool for them if they are marking such claims as completely false.
Lol, âone side of the climate debate.â There isnât debate among scientists - thereâs like less than one percent of climate scientists who donât believe that humans are putting our climate in a terrible place. So just that part the tells you the bias. Itâs just like when they talk about the debate between evolution and creationism: the only debate is with people who reject the data to further their own agenda.
In 2014 John Oliver had a segment on Last Week Tonight where he had âa statistically representative climate change debateâ, where he brought out 3 scientists arguing against human affected climate change and 97 arguing for it.
Right, thatâs the thing.
I honestly believe part of the problem this country is in today started when the news media felt they had to give equal time to every issue. I remember lots of segments on climate change where they had one person on each side, and I could understand most people coming away believing we just donât know. And itâs not just climate change, they did that with everything.
So here we are, polarized like never before, with so many believing that every opinion is legitimate. Sure, you can believe what you want, but if you believe the world was created 6000 years ago, youâre just wrong. Youâre entitled to believe something wrong, but that doesnât make it valid. A legitimate news site should reflect that. A climate denier or a creationist shouldnât get equal time. Same with do many issues.
Data collected by the department should be presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate.
Using recent history as context for my interpretation of this, I believe what they actually mean is ââŚshould definitely not be presented neutrally, because doing so would rely only on the peer reviewed science which overwhelmingly agrees that climate change is definitely a real thing that is currently happening. Instead, DO adjust it to make it seem like itâs impossible to say for sure.â
Also itâs important to note that NOAA is often used for military purposes. Four of our six military branches (Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and the Space Force whatever they do) absolutely and unequivocally depend on their data to do their job, one just relies on it, and the sixth hitches rides on navy equipment.
Iâm not the biggest fan of the military industrial complex, but if the oceanic and atmospheric arm of one of the worldâs most significant consumers of mined hydrocarbons has been sounding the alarm bells for decades I have every reason to believe them
AccuWeatherâs owner and Republican megadonor Joel Myers has been dreaming for years about destroying the National Weather Service. He wants weather to be a for-profit venture (specifically his profit).
God damnit. if you understand anything about our global weather observation network you know that if America privatizes the entire world will have way way less accurate weather no matter what anyone pays.
the only reason things work so well now is because the whole world openly and freely shares all of this data. this is important because all of the worldâs weather patterns effect each other. thereâs only so much data that can be collected without being in the territory as well. so much of the worldâd infrastructure relies on this information being available and accurate. privatizing it would surely be massively profitable and horribly detrimental to everyone and everything. itâs one of the very few actually decent cooporative things humanity has ever done. of course rich bullies want to come and stomp it out.
You know, Iâve never thought about this. I know there are some things that scientists from different nations work together on even if the countries donât like each other much (like the ISS and cern) but Iâve never thought about the weather.
Thatâd be insane to privatize weather data but Iâm sure thatâs what they want to do because they can charge for it.
The claim is false and we should absolutely be careful about how we word things but also the outcome will be, as you say, essentially the same.
ââŚreminder that Project 2025 plans to defund large sections of the NOAA and is more worried about how facts ruin their arguments than the safety of your towns and cities.â
A little longer but at least itâs true.
This is only half the picture. The other half is the repeal of schedule f (I think) where the federal government hires people to serve as experts of a subject rather than working for the administration. Project 2025 wants to reclassify thousands of government jobs to allow them to be appointed but the president. Imagine NOAA, not gone, but rather ran by maga loyalists or scientists who have to shut up or lose their jobs. And tons of other places too like the epa, OSHA, nrc, and more
