silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarevortic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThey know who it comes from. They want to change that answer from “free from NOAA” to “on a subscriber basis from private companies like AccuWeather”.
minus-squareEmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoDoesn’t AccuWeather also depend on NOAA data? I was under the impression that they basically just parse the stuff that NOAA/NWS puts out and make people pay to have convenient access to it. Am I misremembering something?
minus-squareMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAccuWeather wants to buy the NOAA network, so they can have a monopoly
They know who it comes from. They want to change that answer from “free from NOAA” to “on a subscriber basis from private companies like AccuWeather”.
Doesn’t AccuWeather also depend on NOAA data? I was under the impression that they basically just parse the stuff that NOAA/NWS puts out and make people pay to have convenient access to it. Am I misremembering something?
AccuWeather wants to buy the NOAA network, so they can have a monopoly