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Atmospheric scientist Matthew Cappucci joins Sam Stein to talk the hundreds of firings at NOAA, and how the cuts will affect weather forecasting, air travel, and natural disasters.
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I know AccuWeather in State College PA used to be a huge Trump donor, and they wanted to step in to provide the weather for a fee. Trump tried and failed to get Barry Myers confirmed to head NOAA, so now he's just going to trash it. Does Elon have a weather app?
The first test will be mid to late Tuesday between East OK, West AR, and East TX, West LA.
Thank you for titling this so that I could share on FB and my MAGA friends might actually listen and not dismiss because of “trump” in the title
Getting rid of the National Weather Service was in project 25. People voted for this. I’m in Florida. I guess we will just have surprise hurricanes.
I have relatives that are both farmers & ranchers and there very up set about cuts to these programs
The DOGE tech bros have no idea what many of these institutions do or how critical they are. They don’t care either. Proof? The many re-hires after massive firings , and the total disregard for the danger we as citizens would face if entities like NOAA and FEMA, are crippled. Only a misinformed, misled population can vote for an openly anti science party whose only goal is to give more power to the ones who are already powerful , eliminate any form of accountability for the rich and well connected , and turning our country into a religious fundamentalist plutocracy.
I live in a red state and let me tell you, I think the ignorant around here will only learn from very difficult lessons of what a bad economy is actually like.
They’re destroying our climate policy, which will cause irreparable harm for our children. This is entirely about hiding the evidence.
This is the granular on why he says NOAA would not have gas to put in the vehicle to drive to carry out their work is because when they cut the National Park Service and NOAA as well, they removed the Visa cards for those type expenses, (also toilet paper, printer ink, many basic office supply). These rural offices will become non functional in many ways unless the workers who remain are willing to pay for those things out of their own pocket hoping to be reimbursed. They know it is likely they will not be reimbursed and if they are it will take a very long time. No mechanism is in place to do so and it will cost the taxpayer much more because that will be very expensive and time consuming to create.
I had one online dimm ass tell me that we dont need the NWS "we can just watch the news" not realizing tv meteorologists get their info from the NWS. 😂
Not sure why anyone is surprised by any of these cuts they were all outlined in "Project 2025" (oh, right, Trump didn't read it or know what it was about, duh!)
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Project 2025 called for gutting NOA. Obviously, cuts are about squelching climate research – this is about protecting fossil fuel industry profits. If agriculture, people’s lives, on & on & on are negatively impacted the 5 billion $ donation trump requested of polluters is all that matters.
So does Trump want to privatize everything, in true capitalist form?
He says he wants to run America as a business.
Competition is a good thing. We’re told it’s the purest way, to get the best results. People do much better, if there’s always a target on their back, right?
Those who rise to the occasion, (by any means necessary) get the best rewards.
It could never become corrupt like government.
Just relax. Don’t worry your pretty little head about it. Daddy T is gonna make it all right.
He just gave you a golden business opportunity. Freed you from the government’s constraints.
America is for sale, and open for business. And it’s going to cost all of us… a lot.
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He’s using his baby size sharpie to draw a fake map of inefficient employees. Goo goo ga ga Trump is a baby!
Well, this is going to be a really scary tornado and hurricane season!
So when is SCOTUS going to weigh in on the foreign aid case?: "Foreign Aid: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted a ruling by lower court Judge Amir Ali that required the Trump administration to disburse foreign aid funding for already-completed work, hours before Ali’s midnight Wednesday deadline to release the funds. Roberts’ ruling—which puts Ali’s order on hold until the Supreme Court can review the issue—is temporary and doesn’t comment on the merits of the case. . ."
Are they going to wait five more days, five more weeks, five more months? And of course, in the meantime, Musk is going to continue his purge of all Federal agencies.
So, if I understand this right, Trump can snap his fingers and get a response from SCOTUS in one day, while the American people and workers have to wait it out?
In terms of the post office the Republicans voted a few years back that the pension plans of future staff needed to be pre-funded like 3o years into the future. By doing this they put an unnecessary burden of cost on them to make them seem like they were going insolvent and could not compete with fed ex or ups and there for should be privatized . This is the old playbook for every government program out there that serves the people of our country. It’s already funded by our federal taxpayers. I’m sure non of us will pay less federal taxes after they strip away all the agencies that are already funded by these taxes . Instead we’ll just bear additional cost for services we were used to getting through the payment of the federal taxes we were already paying. It’s not about efficiency! It’s about all of us paying more for everything! It’s a grift on all essential services or human needs period.OMG wake up people!
I wish the video titles weren't so clickbaity. This is a great, informative conversation but the title makes it sound like inflammatory misinformation bullshit.
The owners of AccuWeather have been lobbying to privatize the weather service for decades (but still have the government pay for and provide the data they and everyone get for free). They almost got there in Trump 1 when Trump announced Myers as the head of NOAA (which he ultimately declined due to health). NWS has the highest favorability of pretty much all federal agencies and has only costing a fraction of what other agencies have. It's critical to have a solitary, unified voice for weather advisories and warnings.
They will lie, and tell you whatever gets them more dirty money.
Everybody's little taxpayer funded program is essential to world survival.. Trump needs to do what Warren Harding did in 1921. Cut the Federal budget in half!
I remember the church we grew up in during the mid-eighties telling my parents and the congregation that voting for George Bush was their responsibility as a Christian since Bill Clinton was Pro-Choice. I thought as a Christian, I was supposed to vote Republican because that was the party of Christian morals and belief. Boy was I wrong! Thankfully I realized this before voting age
As long as trump has his sharpie, we should be fine.
Well, that will serve you guys right for alerting us to all these climate-change disasters. (Trump thinks…)
Why does anybody need the NOAA now? Everybody knows that Joe Biden was controlling the weather from a secret base in Wyoming.
They are attacking the American people from every angle. No health alerts, no weather alerts, no help in national disasters, no healthcare, no education, on and on. Thanks To Trump, Musk and the Republicans.
Seems everyone in the Federal government is getting fired instead of the most wasteful and inefficient employee, the felon in the White House.
He's golfing again and wasting our tax dollars.
and 32 people died yesterday due to tornado outbreaks…
Luckily text alerts still hit my disconnected cell cuz the sirens never went off here in Arkansas during the last round of tornado damage 🤨
Two of my local meteorologists sounded the alarm today. Weather balloons are being eliminated. Not all but a lot. This will have a significant impact on forecasting severe weather. This should mesh well with the FEMA cuts. 😒
Why do we need the National Weather Service as long as the felon has his sharpie
We all rely on the NWS, all of us!!!! They were already understaffed. Probationary also means you are in a new position, like a promotion, not just a new employee.
Computer models create more forecast than humans
There is no way to tell how many lives have been saved by the early warning by NOAA! When hurricane season starts, Florida is a prime target, maybe the first one of the year makes landfall at Mar A Lago! Karma is a b****!
Perfect. Right as tornado season gets an early and violent start.
All because MaGA thinks we can just get that info from the weather channel or Ryan Hall. They don’t understand there are scientists producing the data that the models use.
The NWS is already a disaster. We are just beginning the severe weather season with hurricane season approaching , this will not end well.
Y'all forgot to mention the real time storm chasers that certain news agencies are using for storm tracking… that and eye witness accounts.