{"id":351259,"date":"2024-11-15T08:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351259"},"modified":"2024-11-15T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T07:21:38","slug":"to-president-elect-trump-recommendations-for-noaa-and-the-national-weather-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351259","title":{"rendered":"To President-Elect Trump: Recommendations for NOAA and the National Weather Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From MSE Creative Consulting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Essay By Mike Smith<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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I wish to offer suggestions to President-Elect Trump pertaining to NOAA and the National Weather Service (NWS) as vital changes are required in going forward. Some types of NWS forecasts are getting less<\/em> accurate and we have fallen to 4th place in terms of the quality of our meteorological computer models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may have seemed like a good idea in 1970, in practice it has been a disaster for meteorology. There has not been a weather-oriented administrator in 50 years (!). The current administrator shows zero interest in the NWS\u2019s problems and is starving it of resources. When President Trump, during his first term, attempted to appoint an administrator who was focused on weather, he was slimed by marine interests (plus some anti-Trump people in general) who didn\u2019t want their fiefdom disrupted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, NOAA has succumbed to global warming advocacy<\/em> and its products are polluted by that stance. For example, it\u2019s \u201cBillion Dollar Disasters\u201d is nothing but propaganda (see here<\/strong><\/a> and here<\/strong><\/a>). When Congress was interested in funding badly needed gap-filler radars for the NWS, NOAA \u2013 astonishingly \u2013 said no<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is past time to break up NOAA. I don\u2019t have enough expertise to offer suggestions as to what to do with the marine part of the agency, except to say \u201cgood riddance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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