Matt Berger of Space City Weather fame is sounding the alarm on NOAA getting kneecapped
https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/national-weather-service-doge-trust-20167595.php
Despite Lutnick's assurances, a politicized NOAA could be a real problem, Berger told Chron this week.
"Certainly if you wanted to say the planet is no longer warming, one way to do that is just to stop measuring temperatures," he said. "I very much doubt that will happen, but they renamed the Gulf of Mexico, so who knows?"
Project 2025 also calls for the National Weather Service to be privatized, contending commercialization of the agency's proprietary technologies will increase competition. But in reality, Berger said, even weather companies in the private sector—including his—rely on NOAA's data to do their jobs. That includes weather apps on the typical smartphone and the dozen or so AI models in various stages of development.
"All of them require a coherent set of initial conditions, which is primarily government-collected data," Berger said. "If you take that away, those models are no good—garbage in, garbage out. You've gotta have a good set of initial conditions."