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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Democrats love to use NOAA as an example of federal bureacrats doing valuable work.  "We shouldn't be firing bureaucrats, because think of things like NOAA!"

If Democrats truly value NOAA's important work, a small fund will be raised to set up a similar operation outside government, hiring some of the same workers.  They can get access to the various temperature feeds around the world (most countries will support this), and they can continue the work of tracking the temperatures, etc.

Right now NOAA's budget is $6 billion, which seems quite high for a temperature tracking operation.  But, that's only $17 per American.  If Democrats think it's important, they can duplicate it for only $34 per Democrat.  Or $200 for 1 out of 6 Democrats who care enough about climate.  Outside of government, the work can probably be done cheaper, maybe for $1 billion instead of $6 billion.  So if we get 1 out of 6 Democrats to pay $34 each we can save NOAA.

But if no Democrats want to pony up anything, we'll know that it wasn't all that important to them.  [/quote]

This is a great idea!  Then, when you open a weather app or receive a severe weather alert, you can show your voter registration and if you are a registered Democrat, you can view the forecast or alert.  And if you are a registered Republican, you can pay $$ to view it.  Maybe.  If we like you that day.

This is exactly what Elon Musk says about his products (there's a reason his shareholders want to fire him).[/quote]

Actually, your idea is totally reasonable.  A free market for NOAA data makes sense.  Companies who really need it will pay more for it, people who want it will pay something, people who don't care about it won't buy it.  Fine.  Fox News will try to do weather reports without NOAA data, and their forecasts will still be pretty good (there are lots of inputs that don't require anything from NOAA).  But if their forecasts turn out to be worse, maybe Republicans will finally learn a lesson and switch to some better news sources.  Like, imagine farmers.  They'll be pissed if their crops flood because their red team news was providing crappy weather forecasts![/quote]

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