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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Florida and just emailed my two Republican Senators to ask them to please save NWS and NOAA. I cannot even imagine how devastating this year's hurricane season will be without these two agencies.

I don't expect either of them to respond - or even to take me seriously. But my gd I hope they do.[/quote]

I am curious, do you really believe that you will get no information before a major hurricane is about to strike? Like nothing at all, this is what's going to happen?  You are sitting there in your shiny condo or a house completely oblivious until the high winds start all of a sudden and giant waves descend on your beaches, yeah.. Try to use your brain and stop catastrophizing.  [/quote]
Prior to the satellite era hurricanes DID strike without warning and predicting their tracks was mostly guesswork.  The best tools we have for monitoring storm systems are geostationary satellites.  There’s an international partnership such that the Japanese Space Agency launches and provides meteorological data over Asia, EUMETSAT does the same over Europe/Africa, and NOAA provides the data over the Americas.  [b]If the US fails to maintain its satellite capabilities, nobody else is riding to our rescue.[/b]  [/quote]

Look, I feel empathy for the people being laid off. And mass layoffs are horrible, I went through several in my life.  But this issue is completely separate from the catastrophizing done here that the world will collapse and all these modern services we receive now will completely disappear.   What indication do you have that laying off a few hundred people from a large agency employing many thousands will lead to USA being unable to maintain its satellites, provide hurricane and other disaster warnings or even have radar information for weather services?   Because this is the claims you are making.  [/quote]

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