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2024-07-29 16:23:46 UTC
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-28/project-2025-targets-noaa-and-national-weather-service
a conservative platform document known as Project 2025 urges the demolition of
some of the nation’s most dependable resources for tracking weather, combating
climate change and protecting the public from environmental hazards.
“Break up NOAA,” the document says, referring to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and its six main offices, including the 154-year-
old National Weather Service.
“Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main
drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to
future U.S. prosperity,” the document says.
“The National Weather Service, and NOAA more generally, is a key agency in
tracking what’s happening with our climate — and in particular the ways in
which humans are changing the climate,” said Matthew Sanders, a lecturer at
Stanford Law School and the acting deputy director of the Environmental Law
Clinic.
“To propose undercutting, breaking up and quote-unquote streamlining NOAA is
really an effort to block and make less available information about climate
change in order to serve an agenda of climate change denial,” he said.
a conservative platform document known as Project 2025 urges the demolition of
some of the nation’s most dependable resources for tracking weather, combating
climate change and protecting the public from environmental hazards.
“Break up NOAA,” the document says, referring to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and its six main offices, including the 154-year-
old National Weather Service.
“Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main
drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to
future U.S. prosperity,” the document says.
“The National Weather Service, and NOAA more generally, is a key agency in
tracking what’s happening with our climate — and in particular the ways in
which humans are changing the climate,” said Matthew Sanders, a lecturer at
Stanford Law School and the acting deputy director of the Environmental Law
Clinic.
“To propose undercutting, breaking up and quote-unquote streamlining NOAA is
really an effort to block and make less available information about climate
change in order to serve an agenda of climate change denial,” he said.