Comments on: Trump cuts to NOAA include major shake-up on how it gathers weather data

By: GeorgeC

GeorgeC — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:53:10 +0000

So Trump is recommending they gather data about earth from 200 miles instead of 20 thousand miles? One hundred times closer? Whats not to like.

And anybody can track long term data just by setting up software to download the daily short term data periodically. We just dont pay goverment employees to cook the data before we get to see it. No changing data originally published in the 20th century.

By: BLSinSC

BLSinSC — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:36:25 +0000

NASA is like hiring you lazy brother-in-law to do a REMODEL of your KITCHEN on a “COST PLUS” basis that includes a generous HOURLY WAGE! What SHOULD be done in a couple of weeks will be a LIFETIME endeavor! The WORST thing you can say about a finished product is “close enough for Government work”!!
An even CHEAPER way of monitoring the weather (climate) would be to whiz down to the Locally Owned Family Operated Drug Store and pick up a few copies of The Farmer’s Almanac!
Our weather for TODAY – predicted YESTERDAY – called for RAIN throughout the day – it DID rain just a sprinkle after midnight so I guess that counts as TODAY, but around 11 am the clouds vamoosed and the sun is shining! Good chance for up to .6 inches for tomorrow! We need it! We’ll see!

By: jbspry

jbspry — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:52:52 +0000

A major outpost of the Climate Scam suffers.
It’s a good day for Freedom.

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:52:22 +0000

The NOAA has, historically, done a wretched job of fielding satellites. It’s long past time it was relieved of a job that has manifestly proven to be well outside whatever its core competencies happen to be.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:58:28 +0000

19 billion.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:57:18 +0000

16 billion a year to just gather data from satellites?

Couldn’t an AI program do just as good?

I know they interpret the data also but seriously 16 billion? To watch a data feed.

By: Patrick Underwood

Patrick Underwood — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:36:41 +0000

Can’t wait for Eric Berger’s take. It’s not going to be pretty…

By: F

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:46:42 +0000

(Ever Greater) Democrat pearl clutching to begin in 3 – 2 – 1 . . .

By: Richard M

Richard M — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:36:34 +0000

If this makes it intact into the PBR, I think it’s going to be very hard to get this through Congress,

But it may well just represent an opening negotiating position.