DOGE’s NOAA Lease Cancellation Threatens US Weather Forecasting
DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings, a decision that’s sparking widespread outrage and raising serious concerns about the future of weather forecasting in the United States. This action, seemingly driven by a desire to transition to paid weather services, ignores the fundamental reality that all these paid services rely on the publicly available data generated by NOAA. Eliminating free access to this data would effectively cripple the nation’s weather forecasting capabilities.
This move echoes a long-standing conflict, reminiscent of the account detailed in Michael Lewis’s book, concerning the desire by some private companies to monetize weather data – to charge both the government and the public for access to information previously provided freely.… Continue reading
Matt Underwood