At least 32 dead in massive US storm after new fatalities reported in Kansas and Mississippi
Republicans want to remind you that events like this are why is essential to dissolve NOAA immediately, since if you know a tornado is coming you can’t prepare or take shelter, which is a thing they want for some reason.
I would imagine, it’s more with something they can bill you for. the weather network, has the US as a very major part. and it’s run, like government. meaning, for the most part, free to the end user, and incredibly efficient. they don’t see a profit margin there.
plus climate change? if we set all of the records on fire, how can you say the weather’s worse?
Plus, of course, they embarrassed Trump that time when he drew on the weather map with a sharpie showing a storm not headed to Alabama was going there when it wasn’t and they kept repeating facts.
It’s so evil and petty and he ran on it and people voted for him knowing he was going to do this.
So many people are going to die.
From climate crisis fueled storms and tornadoes, from volcanoes.
It is bad enough now with monitoring. I am sad so many were killed, but I am freaked the fuck out about where we will be when NOAA is gone. There is no private company with the resources, monitoring equipment and experts that can come even close to replacing NOAA.
The death toll will be horrendous and likely censored.
I live in earthquake country, and the volcanoes can’t reach me, though they can reach neighboring areas. A quirk of geography protects us from a lot of other things.
It doesn’t stop me from worrying about all the people I know and the millions I don’t who are in danger and not just in this country, but all the others depending to any extent on our data.
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