The 900-plus page book contains a host of disasters Heritage Foundation 2025 Projects. Between plans to turn the federal government into a servant of an imperial president and plans to impose Christian nationalism on every aspect of American life, it’s easy to get lost in the details.
One of the details was a plot to sabotage the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service. Plan 2025 calls for “disbanding the agency, removing many of its functions, handing it over to other agencies, privatizing it, or placing it under the control of states and territories.”
Why get rid of an agency that provides such useful information that is not only used daily by many Americans, but is also the basis for the forecasts that appear on most local radio and television stations? There are three reasons. One of them is profit. The other two…are also profits.
Project 2025 wasted no time in explaining the main reasons for putting such an important institution in the crosshairs. According to Heritage, the various components of NOAA:
…creating a massive business that has become one of the key drivers of the climate change warning industry and therefore harmful to America’s future prosperity. The industry's mission emphasis on forecasting and management appears to be designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. This is not to say that NOAA is useless, but that its current organization undermines its useful functions. It should be broken down and scaled down.
In other words, the problem with the weather service is that it tries to predict the weather. Many times, this requires making people aware that we are experiencing a period of unprecedented heat globally. This is what Project 2025 aims to prevent.
Protecting the fossil fuel industry is a key feature of the plan. Blocking any expression of concern about the climate crisis is so important to Project 2025's goals that it called on the National Security Council to block the promotion of any officer who expresses concerns about climate change or “other polarizing policies.” (This content is currently being Plan page 52but the page numbers have changed several times since the plan was first published, making it more difficult to reference Project 2025's components.
as atlantic organization According to the report, the National Weather Service provides Americans with current weather conditions; short- and long-term forecasts; and warnings for tornadoes, hurricanes, severe storms, flooding and heat. The cost to do it all is about $4 per person.
But Project 2025 wants to hand over these tasks to commercial services, specifically mentioning the commercial company AccuWeather. It acknowledges that services such as AccuWeather are entirely dependent on data provided by NOAA and expects this to continue; it simply wants hide Government services behind commercial products ensure profits and prevent citizens from associating government with such useful services.
This way, commercial services gain profits and credibility while the rest of the government bureaucracy toils arduously behind the scenes. Furthermore, Americans do not realize that government bureaucrats and scientists are doing something valuable.
According to actual reports, Project 2025 also wants to eliminate most of the National Oceanic Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, transfer survey functions to the U.S. Geological Survey, and end functions designed to protect large swaths of the ocean from destruction. fishing. This includes weakening protections for seals, otters and whales under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.
The reduction of these offices will also limit NOAA's ability to provide offshore wind permits. According to Project 2025, allowing wind facilities would “harm fisheries and other existing marine industries.” In other words, your clean energy is hampering our overfishing and oil platforms.
But the biggest target of the program is the Office of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research:
Yet OAR is the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism. Its climate change research merits should be dismissed.
Putting it all together, Project 2025 doesn't hide what it wants to do:
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Protect fossil fuel industry profits by eliminating NOAA’s ability to research and report on the climate crisis and limiting fossil fuel industry licenses wind farm.
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Profit from commercial weather services by eliminating the functionality Americans now receive from the National Weather Service and making Americans rely on for-profit forecasts.
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Protect the profits of commercial fishermen by eliminating offices that oversee protected areas and weakening rules regarding damage to the environment and endangered animals.
As Ben Jealous wrote for ” lion rock club pointed out that the “2025 Plan” is not only the product of one of the largest Republican think tanks, but more than 100 other right-wing groups have also signed on to the plan. This was not designed by a small group; It's a Republican effort, led by a massive organization called Major sponsor of the Republican National Committee and hired dozens of former Trump staffers In the creation of Project 2025.
When talking about climate change, this parable boil frog in warm water Often used. The myth says that if a frog is placed in a pot of cold water, even as the water gets hotter and hotter, it will remain in the water and never escape before being boiled alive.
The grandiose plans of NOAA's 2025 plan are designed to bog Americans down to the boil. And make sure they never look at the thermometer randomly.
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