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Here is what will be denied to NOAA, now and going forward

    Defense Department data also allow hurricane forecasters to see
    hurricanes as they form, and monitor them in real-time.

    For example, hurricane experts can see where the center of a 
    newly formed storm is, which allows them to figure out as 
    early as possible what direction it is likely to go, and whether
    the storm might hit land. That's important for people in harm's way,
    who need as much time as possible to decide whether to evacuate,
    and to prepare their homes for wind and water.
The public paid for this data. Deliberately siloing the data to insure it can't save American lives wouldn't just be theft, it would be an act indistinguishable from evil.
whycombagator
> NOAA, which oversees the National Hurricane Center, says the loss of the Defense Department data will not lead to less-accurate hurricane forecasts this year. In a statement, NOAA communications director Kim Doster said, "NOAA's data sources are fully capable of providing a complete suite of cutting-edge data and models that ensure the gold-standard weather forecasting the American people deserve."
tw04
Kim Doster is a Trump appointee who worked on Musk’s super pac. Her previous position was as a climate change denial specialist. Pardon my skepticism that we can believe anything she has to say. The Trump administration is a big fan of hiring Iraqi information minister wannabes as their spokespeople.
jackvalentine
> Iraqi information minister wannabes

I’ve been thinking about that guy once a week since this administration started.

fredfish
> Her previous position was as a climate change denial specialist.

Predictions won't be less accurate because weather is beyond the comprehension of all people and no amount of data could change that.

lurkshark
I wouldn’t really expect a Trump administration spokesperson to put out a statement critical of the Trump administration’s decision.
lenkite
This is Congress 2015 decision. The Trump administration extended the deadline by another month.
lurkshark
The congressional decision was to scrap the continued development of the DMSP satellites, not to decommission the existing ones or stop the data sharing arrangement. The DoD confirmed the DMSP is still operating and will continue to do so but the data sharing is what they have now decided to cut off.

It also looks like one of the “next-generation” systems, the JPSS, has been ordered to operate in maintenance mode.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amid-trump-cuts-n...

lenkite
Well, the history of the existing satellites shows that many of them have exploded:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Meteorological_Satelli...

AFAIK, Congress voted in 2015 to terminate the whole DMSP program. There was no mention of continuation of "data sharing" or anything like that, as you suggest. I guess in the DOGE budget cleanup of DoD, terminated programs are really being terminated instead of continuing to operate under the radar.

Regarding JPSS - that article says that new JPSS satellites are scheduled to be launched. I agree that the "minimum mission operations approach" doesn't make much sense if that is the case. My guess is that this is a stupid cost cutting move that will most likely be rolled back after pushback.

whoopdedo
>The public paid for this data.

Someone should file weekly FOIA requests.

bix6
Didn’t they axe everyone who handles FOIA?
aprilthird2021
Wow, they'll literally kill American citizens and American citizens will still overwhelmingly vote for them...
jfengel
The margin wasn't overwhelming. But if you include the number of people who could have done something about it but failed to, yeah, an overwhelming number allowed it to happen. And, as far as I can tell, will continue to.
renegade-otter
Generally the outcome of voting for criminals, thieves, and conmen/women.

And then people wonder why they are erecting spikes around the White House and the Treasury. The pillaging has begun.

Frost1x (dead)
mistrial9
> it would be ...

lots of ways to fill in that part. iterating the words seems worth the effort. Thinking out loud, there are readers with frame of reference, and movements or politics-in-practice that have frames of reference, in the messaging .. So making a 2x2 square and filling it in.. you can write for the readers and refine, you can align with movements or their spokespersons and refine, all combined with you yourself representing what you are about.

So to complete the exercise.. how many readers of YNews would respond to "that is evil" wording.. how many movements or politics-in-practice would say "that is evil" as part of their outfacing communications.. and how strongly to you, the writer, want to associate the concepts of "that is evil" with respect to other things that you say or think are important.

I write this pedantic screed because this is so, so critical to communicate right now. The narrow rocky valley pass in which to lay an ambush, is completely in place.. the budget strings. Everyone knows that this is raw executive power in action.. it is to be, because I say so, implemented via the purse. I am not sure how much to include those backdrop statements in any impactful messaging though, because "there is no bad news in sales" and popularity or adaption is part of the task.

mistrial9
oh this is great "Weather: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver"

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