Here’s a consequence of being entrusted to collect critical data, then using that data to peddle a false narrative:
The US government’s weather agency has been dismantled by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) after it was accused of peddling “misinformation”.
Hundreds of weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were fired last week as part of Donald Trump’s plans to slash the federal workforce.
In total, at least 800 civil servants are thought to have lost their jobs, including meteorologists, radar specialists and crews of hurricane hunters, who fly aircraft into storms to help forecasters, according to CBS.
Of course, out come the apocalyptic doomsayers:
The job cuts have triggered protests at the agency’s headquarters in Maryland, with some scientists and lawmakers warning that removing staff involved in predicting natural disasters will “endanger American lives going forward”.
No, they won’t — at least, no more than they ever did before. There are several other avenues of getting such warnings — from private enterprise — and not from some Gummint malignancy.
But here’s the critical part, from someone who’s been doing the hard work of tracking this nonsense for a decade and a half:
Prof Roger Pielke, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who focuses on the politicization of science, said that the agency is “reaping the whirlwind” for “cutting corners on science”.
“By not upholding the highest standards of scientific integrity, we’ve opened the door to politicians meddling,” he said.
According to experts, studies and former NOAA officials, the chart proves little about the effects of climate change, and instead shows that disasters are becoming more expensive because Americans choose to build in hazard-prone areas.
“The problem is you can’t use economic data to say anything about climate change,” said Prof Pielke.
Quite right. Collecting data to forewarn of disaster, then using that data incorrectly and unethically to further a boutique (and flawed) worldview — that would be Global Warming Climate Cooling Change©, of course — deserves censure of the second-highest order. (“First-order” censure would be imprisonment and so on.)
So of course this little clique of taxpayer-funded climate alarmists deserves to be shut up and disbanded.
MOAR DOGE like this, please.
