Summary
Hundreds of NOAA employees, including National Weather Service meteorologists, were fired Thursday as part of Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal workforce under Trump.
The layoffs, affecting up to 10% of NOAA’s workforce, targeted probationary employees.
Lawmakers and experts condemned the cuts, warning they will jeopardize public safety and disaster preparedness.
Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) called the firings “unconscionable,” while climate scientists warned they would weaken the country’s ability to respond to extreme weather and climate disasters.
What’s the point of this? From their perspective? I don’t get it.
Petty revenge for contradicting trump about that one hurricane.
Probabaly a mix of lowering government costs to give billionaires a tax break and if we don’t monitor it the climate change numbers don’t get worse.
Also, private companies selling you tornado warnings for the small price of 50 dollar/month soon.
But arent services like accuweather just reselling data gathered and processed by NOAA?
Yes. I have a friend in meteorology and they said that the Weather Channel doesn’t actually have any meteorologists on staff, they just repackage what NOAA and the NWS report instead of crunching numbers themselves.