There are worse things in Project 2025, but the elimination of the National Weather Service and NOAA shouldn't be ignored. By Hal Brown, MSW
So let's eliminate these agencies. What could go wrong?
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The article (above) begins as follows:
Among its many sweeping calls for change in American government, a conservative platform document known as Project 2025 urges the demolition of some of the nation’s most dependable resources for tracking weather, combating climate change and protecting the public from environmental hazards.
“Break up NOAA,” the document says, referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its six main offices, including the 154-year-old National Weather Service.
“Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity,” the document says.
Buried in the LA Times article is this tidbit of relevant information:
The section of Project 2025 pertaining to NOAA was authored by Thomas Gilman, who served as assistant secretary of commerce and chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of Commerce during Donald Trump’s presidential administration.
Prior to that appointment, Gilman was chief executive of Chrysler Financial and spent more than four decades in the global automotive industry, a sector closely tied to oil and gas interests. Gilman is currently director of ACLJ Action, an advocacy organization “dedicated to liberty, constitutional government and religious freedom,” according to its website. He is also chairman of Torngat Metals, a rare earth development company.
The Heritage Foundation did not respond to a request to speak with Gilman for this article.
The article lays out the importance of these two federal agencies which I think most readers here already know.
What is interesting to me is that this portion of Project 2025 has little to do with turning the country into a totalitarian authoriatian state. It is based on denial of Climate Change and how saying it is a myth benefits the fossil fuel industry.
Here's the website of The National Weather Service:
So let's eliminate these agencies. What could go wrong?
