Opinion | Republicans Would Regret Letting Elon Musk Ax Weather Forecasting (Gift Article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/opinion/doge-musk-ramaswamy-noaa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE4.k3P-.cI45OljDb2OT&smid=re-nytopinion

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  1. Weather forecasting needs an upgrade, and Republicans have a golden opportunity to do it, argues Ryan Maue, who served in the first Trump administration in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy:

    “An arm of Mr. Trump’s team, the Department of Government Efficiency, to be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, wants to eliminate $500 billion in spending by cutting programs whose [funding has expired](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/musk-ramaswamy-doge-500-billion-spending-where-they-will-cut/),” Ryan writes. “That could include NOAA. With the rising costs of and vulnerability to extreme weather in a changing climate for the United States, dismantling or defunding NOAA would be a catastrophic error. Rather, there is a golden opportunity to modernize the agency by expanding its capacity for research and innovation. This would not only help Americans better prepare for and survive extreme weather but also keep NOAA from falling further behind similar agencies in Europe.”

    Read the full essay [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/opinion/doge-musk-ramaswamy-noaa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE4.k3P-.cI45OljDb2OT&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

  3. Republicans don’t care about people. They won’t regret anything. They also know that their voting base is uneducated and will vote for them even after they have shot them in the leg.

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