This section is for discussing the situation regarding the government’s handling of funding and staffing for NOAA & NWS.
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Thank you, TK.
Eric fisher
“All expertise related to radiological and nuclear threats is eliminated. All capacity for natural disasters response has been eliminated,” agency officials said in a memo after the layoffs.
Health experts tasked with investigating cancer clusters, overseeing chemical weapons demolition and responding to toxic substance spills were also cut, multiple officials said.
cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee…
https://x.com/ericfisher/status/1910793569868407141?s=46&t=neG9xl79s_BtNQXSGBlqLQ
Good heavens. This is the link at the end of his tweet
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee-schools-lead-poisoning-cdc-denies-help/
And then there is this. Anyone referring to climate change and using the word climate will be fired.
As a result, the administration now plans to eliminate the research arm of NOAA and close all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices.
This is because the word climate is used by the agency. I’m trying to figure out how to discuss weather without using the word climate