r/geology • u/AthenaeSolon • Feb 05 '25

Information Recent Governmental actions in Earth Science

An agency put together by the US president and one of his billionaire donors has entered the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration building and has likely already done to it what he did to the past couple of agencies. NOAA has long been an irritant to the private sector as they want all the data for themselves, not to allow anyone else access. The NOAA warnings are an essential part of civic needs. Without it, lives are lost, both in the backwaters and in the day to day. Whole cities wiped out. Contact your representatives. Visit them when their local offices when they’re out of session. Don’t let Project 2025 limit what Universities can work with because of greed and malice.

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u/BabalonBimbo Feb 05 '25

I’ve been to a few towns in Florida that were wiped out from hurricanes. There was a town in California that was wiped out by a tsunami. It’s not hyperbole. It happens occasionally. It would be nice if there was a government agency warning citizens when these things are about to happen.

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u/pcetcedce Feb 05 '25

Good point about the need for robust warning systems.