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[quote=Anonymous]NOAA satellites are part of the global Search and Rescue network, which detects and locates distress signals. Last year they saved 350 lives, including water rescues, downed aircrafts, and lost hikers.

Project 2025 calls for privatizing services and placing them under the control of states and territories, which is a silly idea.  Extreme weather events don’t respect state boundaries, and they’re influenced by global and regional conditions. If you want the most scientifically accurate information gathered in the most efficient way, data collection needs to be done at the national level.

Privatizing services doesn’t work unless there are accountability and performance metrics and guarantees of equitable access (Puerto Rico privatized its energy utility, and the result has been degraded services and unreliability).  It’s easy to imagine poorer red states having to pay more to access information about tornado, heat and wildfire risks.  Data that isn’t privatized will be politicized or covered up in order to line the pockets of fossil fuel and other polluting industries, which is the real goal here.

Whatever justification is being given for dismantling NOAA, it’s a smokescreen.[/quote]

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