Abolish the National Weather Service!

insurance companies will fund it

insurance companies won't do shit, just jack rates through the roof if a storm hits or cancel everyone

you stupid fucks
 
yeah, the data collected by them, and the forecast was off by about 30 miles when the storm was what.......900 miles away?


mind you, hurricane warnings were NEVER issued for florida, despite the storm being on an apparent bee-line to them.


if you want disney meteorology, go to accuweather.com


you have people clamoring for something to be privatized who have no understanding of it.
 
public safety...for profit!

i cant wait until the first inept shit is making a forecast and totally blows it because he doesn't know anything but will work for 25,000 dollars.
 
So what? These private companies can feel free to charge for (what some Fox News op-ed claims to be) "increased accuracy", but as long as private companies are leeching directly from the public's meteorological data, I have no problem with citizens also having an publicly-available analysis of that data as well.
 
Actually they do.


Lockheed Martin. ITT Corporation. Weather Systems division of Harris Corporation, including subcontracts to Boeing, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), Honeywell, Carr Astronautics, Wyle Laboratories, and Ares.

But that's another story.
 
Your response was "So what?" The existence of NWS ought not be contingent on its efficacy. Regardless of whether they do a shitty job, they should exist as a matter of principle. I'd be inclined to call that marxistic because it certainly isn't kenyan. To that end, it's not even marxian.


you're more fringe than randroiRAB now. lol.
 
in order to get that accurate forecast, the NWS had every regional office launch weather balloons such that the models could predict exactly what the hurricane steering would be.

imo, they fucking nailed it once the hurricane formed and it got clear of Hispaniola.


NWS also does an outstanding job with tornado warnings and other weather notes.
 
Regardless of the bullshit printed in some Fox op-ed, no one here is convinced in the slightest that the National Weather Service is woefully inadequate.

I never stated any department's existence "ought not" be contingent on it's (absolute) efficacy, but the existence of some marginally more accurate service with some slightly higher relative efficacy surely is not a factor to me. If the vast bulk of the NWS's information were not useful, then there would be no reason for it to exist, but not even the durabest Fox News partisan would try to make that claim.
 
....says the corporatist who is suggesting that it would be preferable that if taxpayers wanted to get any utility out of the work paid for by taxpayers, that they should be forced to pay private companies who are reliant on the taxpayers' services.



Makes about as much sense as the CDC developing the cure for cancer and then giving an exclusive patent to Merck.
 
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