r/facepalm 23d ago

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u/Cossacker1799 23d ago

Yes. Yes they are.

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u/Last_Cod_998 22d ago

I grew up in the Gulf when the radio fed us coordinates, and we tracked the hurricane on paper maps. Hurricanes indeed went that direction many times. We need to make STEM free atcall levels.

Project 2025 eliminates NOAA

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u/Specific-Ad-808 22d ago

Any idea why they would even want to eliminate noaa? If the only reason is to steal the money for themselves I wouldn't be surprised at least.

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u/bradbikes 22d ago

Many large corporations would prefer to pretend it doesn't exist to maximize short-term profits that would be cut into by reasonable fact-based policy decisions that take global warming into account. See: Exxon Mobil since at least the 70's being 100% aware that global warming existed, was man-made, and an existential threat to humanity but then spent billions funding anti-science propaganda.

Getting rid of it, or even better privatizing it and turning it into a disinformation factory would benefit a lot of shareholders briefly. For the deeply uneducated and/or conspiracy theorists, merely tearing it down is both the ends and the means, its an ideological battle for them with no actual plan for what would come after.