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Today, we take the National Weather Service for granted. Its data is always available for anyone to use. In many cases, we get it indirectly through third parties, like news stations, weather apps, and cable TV channels, but the work of getting the forecasts put together largely happens at NWS. It’s hard to imagine not being able to check the weather, see radar, and get alerts for severe weather, including tornados.
Seeing the importance of getting forecasts and warnings out there, Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant started the first Weather Bureau, putting it inside the Department of War . Abbe became the Bureau’s first chief, and he successfully convinced the Department of War to fund further study of meteorology.
In the 1980s, Reagan-appointed NOAA administrator John V. Byrne proposed selling off all of the agency’s weather satellites so that a private company could operate them and sell the data to the National Weather Service. This would have been accompanied by as much as 30% layoffs at the service, along with the elimination of many types of specialized forecasting. On top of that, basically anything that could be sold or contracted out would have been removed from government.
Seeing how unpopular many of their ideas are, these strange people decided they’d bypass the democratic processes that have kept normal people in charge. The proposal to get rid of the National Weather Service, among many other things that are just as bizarre and unpopular, are contained in a 900-page plan made for the next president, called Project 2025.
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