Topic: NOAA

[hofpwx]

Let’s put things in perspective.

NOAA’s budget is about $6 billion, give or take.

In 2023, Americans spent $17 billion just on delivered pizza.

[SoMDWx]

Someone, is there a way to IGNORE a topic?

[saratogaWX]

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[mcrossley]

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[ocala]

Each department head has to be held responsible for controlling bloat. As I said above if you need 35 people to run an office and six months later you have 38 then that person  in charge needs to be held accountable. For way to long departments have gone unchecked. There's a correct way to clean up the mess. Indiscriminate firings are not the way to go.

Agreed. Problem is, 35 is far too low so an increase of 3 barely makes a dent in the underservice and the overwork.

35 was a number I threw out. Have no idea how it takes to staff an office.

[hofpwx]

Each department head has to be held responsible for controlling bloat. As I said above if you need 35 people to run an office and six months later you have 38 then that person  in charge needs to be held accountable. For way to long departments have gone unchecked. There's a correct way to clean up the mess. Indiscriminate firings are not the way to go.

Agreed. Problem is, 35 is far too low so an increase of 3 barely makes a dent in the underservice and the overwork.

35 was a number I threw out. Have no idea how it takes to staff an office.

An exact value isn’t important. Just that more staff does not equal bloat or inefficiency by definition.

[K2GW]

>>Let’s put things in perspective.
>>NOAA’s budget is about $6 billion, give or take.
>>In 2023, Americans spent $17 billion just on delivered pizza.

Totally invalid argument. That’s actually a “Slothful Induction Fallacy”.

I’ve never in my life ever paid to have pizza delivered, but I am required to pay taxes every year.

[K2GW]

>> I do not trust AI. At all.

BTW, NOAA is actually already using AI to pinpoint wildfires and numerous other things, so it is logical it might use it to draft initial local forecasts and alerts to potential warnings in the future.

The NOAA AI initiative mentions the previous administration for its support. 

https://www.noaa.gov/ai

[hofpwx]

>>Let’s put things in perspective.
>>NOAA’s budget is about $6 billion, give or take.
>>In 2023, Americans spent $17 billion just on delivered pizza.

Totally invalid argument. That’s actually a “Slothful Induction Fallacy”.

I’ve never in my life ever paid to have pizza delivered, but I am required to pay taxes every year.

Completely factual data. Not an example of any logical fallacy. Being required to stop at red lights isn’t an infringement of your liberty, also.

[ocala]

NOAA hiring again
https://wgno.com/weather/national-weather-service-hiring-again-following-layoffs/

[SoMDWx]

This has been the general theme across the entire federal gov't.

Lay everyone off then rehire...

[hofpwx]

And that works out to massive savings, according to DOGE. Somehow.