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And more notes from the live chat with Dr. Daniel Swain (Weather West) on the chaos and destruction of NOAA and National Weather Services by DOGE and Trump Regime:

Dept of Defense will no longer include climate change in their plans.

If research funding is replaced by corporations replaces the funding, it will cause bias in the research.

No philanthropy can afford to fund to replace all the weather services throughout the USA.

Defunding the weather balloons means that data to predict a tornado or the landing location of a hurricane will be gone.

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More notes from the live chat by Weather West (Dr. Daniel Swain) on the chaos being wrought upon the National Weather Service:

Dept of Commerce terminated an agreement with a university regarding weather/climate research stated "this cooperative agreement promotes exaggerated climate threats...promoting anxiety..."

A doc from the White House states that the proposed close the NOAA office that does and funds research on weather and oceanographic. NASA is targeted for larger cuts regarding planetary research. Many cooperative research centers will be closed. Proposed is the canceling the partnership between NASA and NOAA, which would end weather satellite updates.

A textbook example of the Orwellian “Memory Hole”

When a fact contradicts the will of fascists and their despotic leaders, that fact is simply deleted, rewritten, or covered up, and there are numerous examples of the fascist US despot Donald Trump doing precisely this. I present here one such example: a research paper showing evidence that immigrants have lower crime rates than the baseline non-immigrant population. This contradicts the Despot’s will that most crime is caused by illegal immigrants, and so the research is erased.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250121225514/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate

The fascist bloc of the US have been doing this for many decades now, it is just that since the despot seized absolute power a few months ago, the fascists have been more unabashedly rewriting history than they have ever before in my lifetime.

EDIT: I should say, this is the entire reason why the fascist despot defunded the NOAA organization. NOAA, in the natural course of doing their jobs predicting the weather, kept on discovering too much hard evidence that climate collapse is a real thing. Since the will of the despot is that climate collapse is false, the despot simply covers up the facts by firing the scientists who predict the weather.

National Institute of JusticeUndocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Lower Than U.S.-Born Citizen RateAn NIJ-funded study examining data from the Texas Department of Public Safety estimated the rate at which undocumented immigrants are arrested for committing crimes. The study found that undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.[1]
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Update. "Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency. White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted."
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"President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the #climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (#NOAA)…The administration is also preparing to ask for deep cuts to #NASA’s science programs."

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"The cuts would devastate weather and climate research. It would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and #climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including severe storms and tornadoes.

The documents describe the administration’s budget proposal for 2026, but indicate the administration expects the agency to enact the changes immediately."

cnn.com/2025/04/11/climate/tru
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CNN · Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediatelyBy Ella Nilsen
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@Fife4Europe Most Americans do not know the NOAA exists or what it does for them. Most Americans think weather forecasts and storm warnings come from smiling TV people standing in front of green screens.

Trump destroying #NOAA is just one component of his crusade to destroy America, made possible by Americans who are as deliberately ignorant and hateful as he is.

"Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to renew their lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance."

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