NOAA layoffs underway

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Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts​

‘Crackdown on climate’ predicted as oversight enacted over agency staffers’ email and meetings with foreign nationals

“The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) has placed onerous new restrictions on its scientists that people within the agency say could hamper the quality and availability of the world’s weather forecasts, among other key services.

The new requirements have created a sense of unease within the agency, according to current and former high-level Noaascientists and officials the Guardian spoke with, and alarmed partners at European agencies.

… Last week Noaa’s office of research sent a message to all staff saying that “effective immediately”, the agency’s headquarters will implement a new layer of oversight over its scientists’ email and “virtual meetings” with foreign nationals. The new restrictions also require all Noaa employees and affiliates to document “all international engagements” in an internal spreadsheet for approval by a Trump political appointee on a case-by-case basis.

“We haven’t stopped anything yet,” the scientist said, but “it’s a crazy amount of stuff to do. Working internationally is so routine, it’s just hardly thought of.” …”
 
“… The Noaa directive did not outright bar its scientists from continuing ongoing international collaboration, but the additional administrative burden appears to be especially onerous for the National Weather Service (NWS) – the division of Noaa that underpins all weather forecasting in the US and provides a constant stream of data on the atmosphere and oceans to the world for free as a public good.

A climate scientist at the EU’s Copernicus agency, who did not wish to be named, said he was “appalled and saddened” when he heard the news last week. “The climate crisis knows no boundaries, and halting international scientific collaboration can only undermine our ability to understand and combat it.”

Staff within Noaa are also preparing for further budgetary and staffing cuts which would place further strain on the agency. According to reporting from CBS, “current employees have been told to expect a 50% reduction in staff and budget cuts of 30%”. …”
 
“… Other policy experts within Trump’s inner circle want to privatize the NWS. A recent study found that for every dollar invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to the American people (and more to the world through freely available public data access).

Because the NWS is so valuable to society, Greg Carbin, who until recently served as the chief of the forecast operations branch for the NWS’s weather prediction center, said the restrictions at Noaa cannot be seen to be strictly a cost-saving measure.

“Cutting these services now would be a reckless decision that would cost far more in lives and damages than it would ever save on a balance sheet,” said Carbin. “Investing in weather and climate services is not a cost – it is an essential safeguard for the nation’s security, economy and wellbeing.”…”
 
Yeah a friend of mine from Duke is a PhD ecologist with NOAA for the last decade, and he got laid off.

The repairs to the world after this administration will be so insane....and take a long time, if even possible to repair.
Its no big deal
I am confident the damage from storms is going to end
 
Yeah a friend of mine from Duke is a PhD ecologist with NOAA for the last decade, and he got laid off.

The repairs to the world after this administration will be so insane....and take a long time, if even possible to repair.
Before we judge whether his firing was a good idea or not…what were his five bullet points?
 


“… Personnel who have been subject to the mass cuts include, OU meteorology students set to convert to full-time roles at weather forecast offices, employees at the National Severe Storms Laboratory and those involved with radiosonde observations, the weather balloon data that is fed into models.

The anonymous source told OU Daily they believe the minimum staffing level required for tornado events may not be met after these layoffs. The National Weather Service issues tornado warnings and watches. …”

tornado GIF

But we will still have hot storm chasers, right?

Glen Powell Twisters GIF by Regal
 
Would any of our board Trumpers like to come here and defend this? I'd love to hear the defenses of all of this.
Or of:
- I’m king
- I make the laws
- price of eggs
- eviscerating SSA
- saying Ukraine started the war
- price of eggs
- plummeting home sales
- plummeting consumer confidence
- price of eggs
- increased unemployment claims
- firing a four star general bc DEI, but giving a waiver to an overtly unqualified white replacement
- price of eggs
- comically blatant corruption (see Trump meme coin, Justin Sun, etc etc etc)
- isolating the US economically and in all areas of defense
- whitewashing and extorting for the release of serial rapist, woman beater, sex trafficker Andrew Tate
- passing a deficit exploding budget with an unprecedented wealth transfer to the richest class of people since the robber barons
- absolute gutting of public health, medical technology advancements, and pandemic planning
- price of eggs
- dozens more …
 
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Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts​

‘Crackdown on climate’ predicted as oversight enacted over agency staffers’ email and meetings with foreign nationals

“The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) has placed onerous new restrictions on its scientists that people within the agency say could hamper the quality and availability of the world’s weather forecasts, among other key services.

The new requirements have created a sense of unease within the agency, according to current and former high-level Noaascientists and officials the Guardian spoke with, and alarmed partners at European agencies.

… Last week Noaa’s office of research sent a message to all staff saying that “effective immediately”, the agency’s headquarters will implement a new layer of oversight over its scientists’ email and “virtual meetings” with foreign nationals. The new restrictions also require all Noaa employees and affiliates to document “all international engagements” in an internal spreadsheet for approval by a Trump political appointee on a case-by-case basis.

“We haven’t stopped anything yet,” the scientist said, but “it’s a crazy amount of stuff to do. Working internationally is so routine, it’s just hardly thought of.” …”

Well, who needs a weather service. Just look outside and figure it out yourself. :unsure:

The inmates are running the asylum.
 
I have always considered NOAA to be a primary target for privatization. Imagine having to pay a buck to get your local forecast
We have to pay for everything else.

But you know, I'd probably pay for a weather subscription if they were privatized.
 


“… Personnel who have been subject to the mass cuts include, OU meteorology students set to convert to full-time roles at weather forecast offices, employees at the National Severe Storms Laboratory and those involved with radiosonde observations, the weather balloon data that is fed into models.

The anonymous source told OU Daily they believe the minimum staffing level required for tornado events may not be met after these layoffs. The National Weather Service issues tornado warnings and watches. …”

tornado GIF

But we will still have hot storm chasers, right?

Glen Powell Twisters GIF by Regal

Who needs meteorologists in Tornado Alley?
 
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