They flew into hurricanes for NOAA, until they got caught up in DOGE firings
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Flying planes into a hurricanes probably costs like $20M a year, and it will be billed at $80M a year.
Can't imagine we will have multiple competing hurricane hunter planes...
Why stop there? Musk can just have congress give SpaceX a monopoly on providing hurricane forecasting and he can charge a billion for it!
Should someone who ignores a simple fact like Trump being a convicted felon and casts their vote based to Trump's "commitment to the rule of law" be allowed on a plane that flies dangerous weather?
> Break Up NOAA. The single biggest Department of Commerce agency outside of decennial census years is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components. NOAA garners $6.5 billion of the department’s $12 billion annual operational budget and accounts for more than half of the department’s personnel in non-decadal Census years (2021 figures).
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> The NWS provides data the private companies use and should focus on its data-gathering services. Because private companies rely on these data, the NWS should fully commercialize its forecasting operations.
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> Downsize the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. OAR provides theoretical science, as opposed to the applied science of the National Hurricane Center. OAR is, however, the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism. The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded. OAR is a large network of research laboratories, an undersea research center, and several joint research institutes with universities. These operations should be reviewed with an aim of consolidation and reduction of bloat.
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John Oliver did a segment on (privatizing) weather during Trump 1.0: