Even More Damaging Layoffs Coming To NOAA As Trump, Musk Care Nothing About Public Safety.

About 1,000 more layoffs announced by the Trump
administration will further worsen weather
forecasting and public safety in the U.S.
Not that Trump or Elon Musk care or anything. 

NOAA and the National Weather Service are already crippled by Trump and Elon Musk-forced layoffs, as I've already reported. 

On Wednesday, things appear to be getting worse. 

As the Associated Press reported Wednesday afternoon:

"The Trump administration is starting another round of job cuts - this one more than 1,000 - at the nation's weather, ocean and fisheries agency, four people familiar with the matter tell the Associated Press.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday began plans to lay off 10 percent of its current workforce, people inside and outside the agency said, with some of them requesting anonymity due to fear of retribution.

The numbers were presented to NOA employees and managers were asked to submit names of positions for layoffs to agency headquarters, which will then go to NOAA's parent agency, the Department of Commerce, on Wednesday, the people said."

We already had earlier rounds of Trump firings at NOAA, encouraged retirements at NOAA, and the elimination of virtually all new employees. Which, as the Associated Press reports, NOAA will have eliminated one of four jobs at the agency. 

Project 2025, a blueprint Trump minions developed in the months and years before he was elected, called for the elimination of NOAA and the National Weather Service. They said that privatizing the whole thing would be better.

Because throwing up paywalls in order to receive life-saving weather warnings, diminishing public safety and making weather forecasts less accurate seems to be in the national interest, in the backwards upside down thinking of Trump and his fanboys and girls. 

Per the Associated Press:

"'This is not government efficiency,' said former NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad. 'It is the first steps toward eradication. There is no way to make these kinds of cuts without removing or strongly compromising mission capabilities.'"

"....NOAA spokeswoman Monica Allen said the agency's policy is not to discuss internal personnel matters, ut said NOAA will 'continue to provide weather information, forecasts, and warnings pursuant to our public safety mission."

Which I call bullshit on, since before the new cuts, weather monitoring such as balloon launches, hurricane forecasting and other services ares scaled back.  So forecasts, information and warnings are already degraded. 

Don't take my word for it. Per AP again:

"Weather forecasts will worsen and 'people are going to start seeing this very quickly,' warned former NOAA chief scientist Craig McLean".  

He also said research cuts will make it harder or impossible for the United States to keep improving weather forecasts and monitoring. 

"People are silently watching the United States decline as a technological leader.... America got to the moon, but our weather forecasts won't be the greatest."