The US agency for oceanic and atmospheric research NOAA provides, among other things, important information on hurricanes, here the hurricane “Milton” off the coast of Florida in October of this year.
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The majority of Americans would probably have voted for Donald Trump as president if he had claimed that the earth was a disk whose edges you could fall off. In any case, the 78-year-old Republican is not comfortable with scientifically proven and other facts. The list of his blatant and bizarre failures with the truth is long. And the question of whether his supporters believe him or simply voted for him despite all his bullshit would be a subject for sociological research.
However, it seems as if Trump doesn’t want to appear stupider than the rest of the Americans when it comes to climate – and to this end he wants to prevent further education on climate matters. At least serious cuts were feared months ago, including at the NOAA Agency for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, if Trump were to become president again. NOAA collects important data for climate research, such as greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and sea level developments. It also provides information about upcoming hurricanes and other severe storms and provides meteorological data that private weather services also use. The bogeyman is now called “Project 2025” – a comprehensive program from the libertarian-conservative think tank “Heritage Foundation” in the event of Trump’s election victory. According to this program, NOAA would be dissolved, many of its functions abolished, transferred to other authorities, privatized or placed under the control of states, as the British newspaper “The Guardian” reported. At this point it is unknown to what extent Trump will follow this script.
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Stephanie Schoell
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According to a complaint from climate scientist Virginia Burkett from the USGS geology agency, the fact that unpleasant research results were downplayed or changed, research projects were no longer funded and scientists were forcibly transferred within the authorities already occurred during Trump’s first term in office. With her complaint, Burkett would like to achieve better protection for scientists from political interference. One might wish that it wasn’t too late for that.
Another well-known strategy is: “Kill the messenger”. In the wake of the devastating hurricanes “Helene” and “Milton,” meteorologists received death threats on social media. Conspiracy narratives have forced NOAA to declare that it does not modify the weather and that no technology exists that the government could use to create, intensify, or direct hurricanes. After all, Donald Trump himself only spread false information in connection with the hurricanes about the alleged lack of help from the disaster management agency FEMA.Jutta Blume
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