"As the best and the brightest were being fired at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by senseless and draconian ‘DOGE’ cuts earlier this year under Trump, with no reason given except for the need to cut a paltry amount of the government’s budget, experts warned repeatedly that the cuts would have deadly consequences during the storm season. And they have."

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted#Trump#DOGE#Texas #cuts#FEMA#NOAA, #NWS

2/2 'People are dying and more will die because of their recklessness, just like we saw during covid. And now millions won’t even have health insurance to deal with the consequences.'

#Trump#DOGE #cuts#FEMA#NOAA, #NWS#Texas #floods

Maybe the federal government should fully fund some agencies to help. We could call them NOAA and FEMA.

https://journa.host/@w7voa/114797442431824935

#Texas #flood #kids#Republicans#NOAA#FEMA

https://beta.ngs.noaa.gov/

It will become the official CRS in the US, probably next year.
Everything is new: geographic system, vertical system, geoid model, state planes,... and to make it funnier, the geographic coordinates move between 1 and 2 meters respect to nad83 🫣

If you want to play with it in PROJ, look at https://github.com/jjimenezshaw/NSRS-2022-PROJ

#gis #gischat

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is proposing cutting about 18% of its workforce and slashing $1.5 billion from its budget, a move that critics say will diminish the ability to predict weather. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/world/politics/noaa-cuts-us-climate-research/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #noaa #climatechange #environment #us #donaldtrump #republicans #howardlutnick

"Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired

Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content"

by Eric Holthaus
Wed 11 Jun 2025 06.00 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa

#uspol#TrumpAdministration#NOAA#ClimateDotGov#ClimateScience#ClimateChange#ClimateChangeDenial#AntiScience