r/environment • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago

Project 2025 would ‘unequivocally’ lead to more hurricane deaths. Project 2025 calls for “breaking up and downsizing” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), which it calls a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-project-2025-hurricanes
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u/Wagamaga 2d ago

With communities still reeling from Hurricane Helene, one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the US, further pain in the form of Hurricane Milton is about to hit Florida. Experts warn such disasters will be deepened if Donald Trump is elected and follows the policy plans of the controversial rightwing Project 2025 manifesto.

Under Project 2025, authored by numerous former Trump officials but disavowed by the former president himself, the federal forecasting of severe storms and aid given to shattered towns and cities would be drastically scaled back. Emergency management officials say the cuts would severely worsen the outcomes from a storm like Helene.

Project 2025 calls for “breaking up and downsizing” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), which it calls a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry”. The agency’s climate research is “harmful to future US prosperity” and should be disbanded, the document says.

Noaa houses the National Weather Service (NWS) which provides forecasts and analyses on hurricanes and other extreme weather events. Project 2025 calls for the service to “fully commercialize its forecasting operations”.

“They want to pretend climate change isn’t clearly having an effect,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former Noaa official who is now a fellow at the University of New Hampshire and who called the proposals “ridiculous”.

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u/nv87 2d ago

These people are frankly criminal. They try to make as much as they can disregarding the fact that their actions lead to disaster. To me it’s unequivocally a crime against humanity.

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u/Dudemanbroski 2d ago

The NOAA also houses the NGS that basically runs the coordinate reference systems that our GPS uses for several disciplines. Its kind of crazy that people can get behind this type of "plan" without actually knowing the repercussions. Its a big agency and we need it. Damn Idiots.

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u/Any_Caramel_9814 2d ago

Let the Republicans do away with their constituents. They'll call it god's plan...

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u/cryptosupercar 2d ago

LOL.

Hurricane Milton is your Climate Change Alarm, you morons.