August 27th, 2011 at 1:47PM
Remember When House Republicans Voted Against Hurricane Forecast Funding?

mikehudack:

itsfullofstars:

In the US, we rely on the National Hurricane Center to forecast storms. The NHC is in turn a division of the National Weather Service, itself a part of the NOAA. Which, in the GOP’s 2011 budget bill, had its funding slashed by $1.2 billion from what was proposed in the president’s own budget bill, a bill that very notably included a $700 million increase over the previous year to cover needed upgrades to the satellites that gather the data that gets crunched in order to predict storms and weather in general.

Apparently weather forecasting is better left to the private sector.

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    so y eah, this was a thing
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