[image] Hurricane Forecasts Are More Accurate Than Ever – NOAA Funding Cuts Could... Chris Vagasky (The Conversation)–The National Hurricane Center’s forecasts in 2024 were its most accurate on record, from its one-day forecasts, as tropical cyclones neared the coast, to its forecasts fi…

[image] freighterman1: Well , someone forgot to tell the tourists that. Well they poured in over the border with Mexico. Nobody’s sure how many “tourists” came to San Francisco but the Poop Map sorta indicates it’s a shitty place to live. And that $10 billion they estimate they spent? Well…

Every time you post something you put me in mind of your favorite cable channel, Fox News. Fox hates New York. Fox commentators go on and on about how filthy NYC is. How crime-ridden it is. How unlivable it is. Where is Fox broadcast from? Where do those same commentators live? Houston? Louisville…

[image] Jughead: US debt per person US$107,653 Australian debt per person A$33,796 = US$22,102 Why? Because the USA spends 80 times more on defense than Australia does. And who do we defend? Australia. Our debt is greater because we purposely fund our military so as to be the arsenal of Demo…

[image] freighterman1: And who do we defend? Australia. Shout out to that time Australia waged war on Emus and lost.

After reading that article on the Emu War I gotta tell you Australians: if you ever go to war with them again, you’re on your own. They seem like bad-asses.

[image] freighterman1: if you ever go to war with them again, you’re on your own. They seem like bad-asses. So all this money you’re spending on defending Australia is wasted? But thanks anyway. And meanwhile your US debt per person has gone up to US$107657. Tick, tick, tick …Boom.

The federal budget deficit is not really relevant in this case. The costs of these cuts to the U.S. economy will be higher then the money saved.

[image] Kennebec_Captain: The costs of these cuts to the U.S. economy will be higher then the money saved. Why? A bold and unsupported statement. [image] Kennebec_Captain: The federal budget deficit is not really relevant in this case. The federal debt is your achilles heel. You are…

[image] Jughead: NOAA has the managerial wherewithal to rearrange resources to maintain services and comply with cuts. So the person who has studied endangered right whales their whole lives can just be shifted to assist programs like the tsunami warning system (which serves the entire Pacifi…

Hurricane Forecasts Are More Accurate Than Ever – NOAA Funding Cuts Could - #49 by Kennebec_Captain - Marine Weather

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