New “Storm” in the US: Trump wants to be the meteorology command

Elon Musk is dismantling NOAA, which foresees all weather data, warns of hurricanes and tsunamis and responds to oil spills. Even GPS can be affected by Trump’s new “thunder”.

The Trump administration, through its new team of Elon Musk, is in a hurry to reshape the US federal government. Days after Tesla’s owner says the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the two billionaires will have begun to ‘launch their thunders’ about the national and atmospheric administration (NOAA).

According to sources of, the Musk’s team infiltrated in the NOAA offices and began to instruct their staff to cease communication with foreign citizens, which, according to entities related to the sector, may represent a direct threat to the weather forecast, conservation of marine life and environmental protection not only from the USAbut also to the agency’s global collaboration in critical scientific work to maintain the planet.

Looking at the Trump Administration conservative, the agency, which plays a key role, for example, in international data sharing and fisheries management, now faces drastic cuts in staff and financing (More precisely, a 50% reduction in staff and 30% budget cuts, according to former NOOA employees).

The New Administration Guide Trump is clear: NOAA is to “end”, Due to its role as “one of the main engines” in what it calls the “alarm industry of climate change”that is why “harmful to future US prosperity”.

The 900 -page document recommends the agency’s “dismantling” and the “elimination of many of its functions”. THE solution goes through privatizing NOAA’s functions, which would be harmful, although most people may not now realize the dimension of the importance of NOAA, experts explain.

The nooa “saves lives”. Why is it so important?

When the functions of NOAA “begin to collapse or degrade we will quickly realize ourselves,” he warns Jeff Watters, Vice President of External Affairs at Ocean Conservancy, remembering that it is the NOA that provides all Meteorological data.

The agency Supervise the National Meteorology Servicewhich takes predictions to the whole country, and the National Hurricane Centerwhich issues critical warnings for tropical storms and hurricanes, and provides related spatial weather forecasts, for example, with solar activity, which It can affect GPS systems.

It is the agency, too, that provides extreme climate events, as hurricanes or tsunamis. “We may be facing a potential tsunami and we do not have the prediction that it will reach us.”

NOAA’s action extends beyond the weather forecast: it also has a hand in Environmental Managementbeing responsible for the management of marine sanctuaries and coral reefs, increasingly threatened by climate change.

The agency also manages a network that responds to stranded marine mammals that rehabilitates animals such as dolphins, whales, seals and sea lions.

NOAA’s environmental work extends to Fighting plastic pollution in the oceanswhere it collaborates with organizations such as Ocean Conservancy.

Another crucial function is the role of NOAA in response to oil spills. Agency models help predict oil movement and assist in recovery efforts, being a fundamental resource for coastal communities affected by strokes. Over the past three decades, NOAA has recovered more than $ 10 billion from the companies responsible for these disasters.

With a possible privatization, private weather companies would not want to assume the financial charge of collecting meteorological data that are currently provided free by NOAA, critics warn. The lack of NOAA would make it feel more in remote areas like the Alascawhere it would be unlikely that the private will invest.

“The critical work of Noaa saves lives. My team and I are investigating this and we will not tolerate it ”, in X Senator Democrat Chris Van Hollen, from Maryland, representing the state where the body’s headquarters is.

“Meteorology does not stop at the borders”

An email sent to employees on Wednesday and analyzed by the staff would now have to pass the submit any “international commitment” for approvalincluding trips, face -to -face meetings or international organizations meetings. Asked if this includes emails with colleagues of different nationalities, the guidance of the musk team would say, “At the moment, no.”

But “it is literally impossible to manage the National Service of Meteorology without speaking to foreign partners,” at X the meteorologist and climate journalist, Eric Holthaus: “Meteorology does not stop at borders.”

Despite everything, Craig McLean, a former NOAA employee, tells The Post that the new administration’s request is not properly unusual, and that directives are not necessarily an indication that Trump plans to retreat into international collaboration in meteorology-but “The nerves are definitely on the skin”.

NOAA data, at least for now, are based on science and not political agendas, but with the cleaning allegedly orchestrated by Musk’s office, it is up to the administration to decide whether or not to do anything about the climate. ” , Warning Watters – “But cutting our eyes and ears and saying that we will face the blindfold -eyed world doesn’t seem like a good idea.”