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Comment Re:And? (Score 1) 284

NCAR is an NSF facility and not a corporation. It's run by UCAR (the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) on behalf of the NSF.

You've provided no evidence that what NCAR does could be done more efficiently by a government organization.

Nor have your provided any evidence of a lack of accountability or black hole budgets.

Comment Re:America is shutting down weather satellites (Score 5, Informative) 149

It's worse than that: the proposed budget for NOAA dismantles a significant number of climate-related activities. Here's some of the text:

In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiavik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.

With this termination, NOAA will no longer support the National Integrated Heat Health Information System, the Climate Smart Communities Initiative, or Climate Adaptation Partnerships. NOAA will assess how to continue support for high priority activities currently supported within Regional Climate Data and Information.

With this termination, NOAA will no longer support climate research grants.

See https://www.noaa.gov/sites/def... for details.

Comment Hutzpah (Score 1) 320

It takes a lot of hutzpah to claim the WMO mishandled the pandemic when Trump's handling led to more than 200,000 preventable deaths.

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