President Trump fires hundreds of climate hoaxers at NOAA. https://t.co/f2A6jOau4e pic.twitter.com/JIrsv8YQxp
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) February 28, 2025
Let me ask: does the NOAA really need 12,000 employees? Heck, do they need 6,000 for what they do?
Weather forecasting: NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) provides weather, water, and climate forecasts and warnings.
Climate monitoring: NOAA monitors climate change and helps with climate adaptation.
Marine resource management: NOAA manages and conserves coastal and marine resources.
Severe weather preparedness: NOAA helps communities prepare for severe weather, such as flooding and heavy rain.
International shipping: NOAA supports international shipping.
Aquatic invasive species: NOAA works to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species.
They had around 11,000 in 1990. Is this justified? Is this necessary? From the link
The Trump administration has fired hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US’s pre-eminent climate research agency housed within the Department of Commerce, the Guardian has learned.
On Thursday afternoon, the commerce department sent emails to employees saying their jobs would be cut off at the end of the day. Other government agencies have also seen huge staffing cuts in recent days.
The firings specifically affected probationary employees, a categorization that applies to new hires or those moved or promoted into new positions, and which makes up roughly 10% of the agency’s workforce.
“The majority of probationary employees in my office have been with the agency for 10+ years and just got new positions,” said one worker who still had their job, and who spoke to the Guardian under the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. “If we lose them, we’re losing not just the world-class work they do day to day but also decades of expertise and institutional knowledge.”
What are they providing? Perhaps a better approach rather than wholesale termination would be to do employee reviews and see who provides value, who’s working, who’s doing good things, who’s working for the taxpayer, and who is working for the climate cult and their own personal beliefs.
It is not only laid-off employees who will be harmed by the cuts, the second worker said. Ordinary Americans who rely on Noaa’s extreme weather forecasts, climate data and sustainably monitored fisheries will also suffer.
There are plenty making the forecasts. Also, they rely on computers, and AI can do a good chunk of their job. Further, most local TV stations have their own forecasting. I look at the local folks, not NOAA.
“There is no plan or thought into how to continue to deliver science or service on weather, severe storms and events, conservation and management of our coasts and ocean life and much more,” he said. “Let’s not pretend this is about efficiency, quality of work or cost savings because none of those false justifications are remotely true.”
So, if they have 11,000 instead of 12,000, will that make that much of a difference? 11,000 cannot make storm predictions and send out alerts? Get over yourselves.
This reminds me of Turkey under Attaturk. The Turkish government wanted to encourage higher education, but no one wanted to pay for it and there were no jobs for highly educated Turks at the time. So the Turkish government created jobs for them. The US government is chock full of people with degrees, some of which represent considerable effort, yet for which there is no market, other than the artificial government market. The Weather Channel makes NOAA nearly obsolete. Their satellite network could be taken over and maintained by US Space force to feed weather data to the Navy and we could call it a day.
The Federal government is bloated at every level in every department. Some more than others. Many of the people working there are unproductive, making the productive ones carry the load. And many of the jobs they are doing, even if they are doing them well, simply don’t need to be done.
i live in tornado alley and pay a lot of attention to the weather and i’ve noticed how they have changed how they forecast weather, especially severe weather the past couple years…they even have the local news forecasting it different…it seems based on climate change and fear…i was told by an emergency management person that a lot of the older teams have left/retired and what we get now is the new gen of climate cultists doing the forecasts…it’s crap…
Cruel and thoughtless? What is cruel and thoughtless is making taxpayers pay for these people to remain employed and not produce much of value to the average person. Nobody is owed a job. Produce something of value or get “redeployed” to some where someone thinks you do.
Government employment is not a jobs program.
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