Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
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Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

Summary

Elon Musk’s staffers entered NOAA and the Department of Commerce without clearance, raising concerns over budget cuts and downsizing.

Project 2025, a conservative plan linked to former Trump officials, calls for dismantling NOAA, citing its climate research as harmful to U.S. prosperity.

Critics warn such cuts could impact weather forecasting, ocean conservation, and fisheries.

NOAA declined to comment, while experts fear an aggressive strategy to weaken the agency before legal challenges can halt changes.

  • Flying Squid
    55•7 hours ago

    They have already stated their intention of replacing the National Weather Service with the very ironically named, and privately-owned, AccuWeather, so I guess this is the start of that.

    • Admiral PatrickEnglish
      40•7 hours ago

      …doesn’t AccuWeather (like most weather services) pull their data from NWS?

      • Flying Squid
        41•7 hours ago

        For now, yes. Under the plan outlined in Project 2025, AccuWeather gets control of all of the NWS weather stations.

        • Admiral PatrickEnglish
          25•7 hours ago

          Jesus.

          My empathy is all tied up with the marginalized groups, minorities, federal workers, and others already negatively affected by this administration. If some yokels in flyover states who voted for him get taken out by a tornado because they had to watch a 30 second ad before the weather alert would show up, I got nothing for them.

          • Flying Squid
            26•7 hours ago

            Unfortunately, plenty of people who live in flyover states also tried to stop these people from getting into office. There are fewer of them, but still millions.

    • HubertManne
      6•6 hours ago

      um. so. do they know accuweather relies on the government to do their forecasts. almost all weather forecasts originate with the us or european agencies and then have some local radar and sensors to get local temps, windspeeds, and precipitate.

      • Flying Squid
        15•6 hours ago

        Yep, but they plan to give AccuWeather all the NWS monitoring stations.

        • HubertManne
          4•6 hours ago

          The sattelites because I was under the impression most monitoring stations were owned locally but everyone shares with the government and in return gets access to the information?

          • skulblaka
            4•4 hours ago

            “What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine.” I expect Musk just assumes he owns all of those and if he ever finds out he doesn’t then he will then assume ownership of it. And then probably try to sell you access to your own weather station.