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Comment by fabian2k | Hacker News Reader

The most plausible rationale for this kind of broad and immediate cancellation of contracts is to indirectly shut down the function of these agencies.

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Republicans have for a long time wanted to end free weather information and hand that job over to for-profit companies like AccuWeather[1]. Trump v1 nominated AccuWeather's CEO to run the organization[2]. Project 2025 calls for breaking up NOAA and commercializing it[3]. This is not some hidden agenda, and you don't have to speculate about their intentions. As is the case for everything these guys do, they are open and brazen about it.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/noaa-pro...

2: https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuwea...

3: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-pro...

Yup, they're pretty clear that they see the NOAA as an enemy to be defeated:

> The document describes NOAA as a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry” and said it “should be broken up and downsized.”

This is exactly it. Rick Santorum was beating this drum decades ago (given that Accuweather is based in Pennsylvania)

Yes. I'm worried about that being the underlying intent too.

I doubt that was the intent. They are cancelling contracts willy nilly right now. NOAA is getting hit harder because of their association with climate science but this administration is not doing a lick of diligence on any of these moves.

Literally their stated intention since before the election. Stated intention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43582451

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