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Not content with spreading disease and starvation that will kill hundreds of thousands worldwide, this week Trump and his henchmen did their best to destroy the National Weather Service.

That's the US agency whose work underlies all weather forecasting in the US - stuff like predicting the paths of hurricanes, and so on.

So, more death and destruction. And it's just starting. This will end only when we stop him. He is mad, don't you see? He will destroy us if we let him.

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"NWS has fired meteorologists as a direct result of upper-level heads telling them to do so," said Ethan Clark, a meteorologist for the city of Raleigh and an intern for WRAL, in a post to X. "Let me be clear, people will die because of this. Absolutely insane... I have no words for it. I’ve spent all day I mean all day in meetings with both republicans and democrats fighting."

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain had a similarly grim assessment, in a post to Bluesky.

"Despite widespread discussion to the contrary, the fact of the matter is that the private sector, as it presently exists, simply cannot quickly spin up to fill any void left by substantial dismantling of NOAA and/or the NWS," wrote Swain. "I work extensively with weather and climate scientists who work in the private sector — all of whom do good and important work that I greatly respect — yet even in the private sector there is near unanimous agreement that NOAA and NWS are indispensable."

In fact, he noted, virtually all private-sector weather reporting right down to your local news meteorologist rely on data from these agencies and "could simply not exist" without them.

(4/n, n = 4)

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