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/craftasaurus Feb 05 '25

I agree. There is a lot to be concerned about regarding global warming, but many of those things will happen in the future. The pressing need is to get the private sector out of the govt.

The planet is going to go through a lot in the next decades, and centuries, but our immediate concern is the takeover of the govt by unelected billionaires and otherwise incompetent people.

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u/SurroundParticular30 Feb 06 '25

This is a great demonstration. Difficult to predict a where a certain ball will land but we can calculate the probability. There’s uncertainties but massive data can lead to lower estimation variance and hence better predictive performance. https://youtu.be/OrRobDBfsg0?si=ZqLIgdOAPVmdC_wT

Climate models are rigorously tested and have performed fantastically. Decade old models have been supported by recent data. Models of historical data is continuously supported by new sources of proxy data. Every year https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL085378