National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has now suffered substantial Musk-Trump layoffs.
“Breaking up, defunding, or reducing NOAA’s highly integrated workforce will severely impact our nation’s economy,” five of NOAA’s former administrators said in an open letter to Congress and the American public. “It will also make it more difficult to receive weather forecasts, be assured of the safety of seafood, and ensure the timely delivery of purchases from overseas, which are delivered primarily through our nation’s ports.”
Learn more at this NPR webpage.
It is likely that the Musk-Trump regime has a particular issue with NOAA because NOAA has been providing a great deal of evidence of climate change, which Musk-Trump wishes to deny, in favor of increased fossil fuel usage, which is what the giant oil companies rely upon.
WHAT WE CAN DO:
Raise holy heck with your Senators and Reps, specially in farm areas where NOAA forecasts are now removed from government sites.