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[–] [email protected] 150 points 1 month ago (14 children)

A reminder that this is still how they think.

Here's a fact check OF a fact check about Project 2025, something that has been stated recently will gut the National Hurricane Center.

USA Today's fact check of that claim

Now when I first ran across this link, I thought, hmmm...are liberal Youtubers making up stuff to sell their position as a hurricane approaches? Maybe so. Then I read the article and actual text from Project 2025.

Project 2025 "does not call for the elimination of" the National Hurricane Center, Heritage Foundation spokesperson Ellen Keenan told USA TODAY.

Not in the text, this part of the fact check is correct. The text calls for review of it as well as other agencies and downsize or move resources around as needed. But then I see:

Data collected by the department should be presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate.

Well, that set off some alarm bells in my head. They aren't actively proposing to shut it down, but there does seem to be an agenda here.

Project 2025 accuses NOAA of "climate alarmism" and calls for it to be "broken up and downsized.” "That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions," the playbook says of the agency.

I read all this as exactly how MAGA Republicans in power have been treating anything tied to climate change. They aren't completely cutting things out, only the parts that are inconvenient to their agenda. Which of course is terrible science, and will absolutely affect the ability to learn and respond to future threats.

USA Today is a tool for them if they are marking such claims as completely false.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Data collected by the department should be presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate.

Using recent history as context for my interpretation of this, I believe what they actually mean is “…should definitely not be presented neutrally, because doing so would rely only on the peer reviewed science which overwhelmingly agrees that climate change is definitely a real thing that is currently happening. Instead, DO adjust it to make it seem like it’s impossible to say for sure.”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

They just want climate scientists to br like the tobacco studies scientists.

Your comment reminded me of the movie "Thank You for Smoking "

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