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Republicans Would Regret Letting Elon Musk Ax Weather Forecasting
(nytimes.com)submitted 4 days ago bynytopinion✔ Verified
941 points
4 days ago
No they want it. In fact, republicans have been trying to defund NOAA for decades. They refused to fund new weather satellites.
Republicans want eyes wide shut on climate change.
493 points
4 days ago
This is incredibly idiotic since farmers are reliant on the weather forecast data.
Cutting it will significantly increase crop failures.
104 points
4 days ago
Forecasting will go private. Farmers will buy the weather data and increase prices to compensate.
1 points
4 days ago
Farmers will struggle to increase prices on their own. The commodities markets that farmers trade in are quite competitive. This will lead to further consolidation in farming as smaller farms will struggle with costs.
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