Hurricane DOGE Sweeps into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA tied to dodge the Trump DEI Executive Order, so now it is being audited by Elon Musk’s team…and their quest is upsetting social justice warriors and climate cultists.
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has been actively involved in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, embracing them tightly during the last 4 years. This is the federal agency responsible for e federal agency for forecasting the weather, researching and analyzing climate data. and tracking storms.
So it is a little perplexing that the staff was distracted by social justice initiatives, rather than the meteorological science American expected them to focus on.
Now the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has gained access to NOAA’s IT systems and is currently reviewing the agency’s DEI program after having been initially denied entry.
At least one member of DOGE has entered the Department of Commerce — the agency that houses NOAA — and was granted access to NOAA’s IT systems, according to U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who is the ranking member of a subcommittee with jurisdiction over NOAA. The DOGE move was also confirmed by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee; Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., ranking member of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee; and other current NOAA employees.
DOGE was first denied access to the NOAA IT servers but now has access, according to two sources familiar with the situation. DOGE is looking for anything tied to DEI and whether they have removed anything DEI-related from bulletin boards, including posters and signs, the sources said. They also checked bathroom signs to ensure they complied with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
One of the NOAA administrators has been placed on administrative leave.
Also this week, the head of NOAA’s Office of Human Capital Services—the agency’s human resources team—was placed on administrative leave. NOAA referred questions to Commerce, which did not respond to a request for comment. The move follows the Trump administration and DOGE placing leaders at many agencies across government on administrative leave and its widespread efforts to shrink the federal workforce.
The staff within the agency is….upset.
Inside the NWS, there are grave fears of what a potential 5-10% cut of staff could mean for their ability to operate weather radar and provide timely and free forecasts for this year’s hurricane season, a person familiar with the situation told CNN.
“The people of the Weather Service are as fine as you’ll get in terms of getting the mission done, but it would be a pretty substantial cut,” the person said. “People are scared. They’ve never had this type of uncertainty really hang over them.”
However, they brought the issue on themselves by trying to dodge Trump’s executive order.
It appears the @NOAA has a DEI Dept called “office of inclusion” and installed the same woman who was running DEI at @NWS to run that office.
Rebranding DEI is still DEI and it will be shut down.
.@DOGE should look into this. Cc @elonmusk https://t.co/Z51NOOYIeR pic.twitter.com/RjNkPBzJfe
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2025
But many of us who have serious concerns about how climate science has been manipulated to pursue eco-activist agendas are hoping for a bit more than a focus than just on DEI:
Thanks for everyone's help in getting @DOGE to look into NOAA's data tampering factory. pic.twitter.com/QcWlsKNRLU
— John Shewchuk (@_ClimateCraze) February 5, 2025
And eliminating “indigenous knowledge” from reasoned discourse related to weather phenomenon would also be immensely helpful.
DOGE should start by cutting all funding that promotes indigenous ecological knowledge from NOAA: https://t.co/3idoES2KF4 pic.twitter.com/J0PCcnUx3B
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 5, 2025
It will be fascinating to see exactly what the young men of DOGE uncover, in terms of discourse and data analysis as they pertain to global climate and atmospheric levels of life-essential trace gases.
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NOAA’s arc of obeisance to D.E.I. is on a downward course.
That of course. But I’m more curious on the outrageous manipulation of the raw data in NOAA’s subservience to the climate change hoax.
Roll NOAA back t0 1990s size and spend.
1970s would be better
A 5-10% cut is no big deal. Here are the forecasts for this year’s hurricane season – “the worst in history, more intense, more of them” – why, “Climate Change”. Now they can get rid of at least that many people.
NOAA fudges their climate data and deliberately ignores rules for their temperature stations. Nearly 1/3rd of the station temperatures are made up.
They are embarrassing themselves putting out such a crappy work product.
I am trying NOT to imagine a meeting of scientists gathered around a table discussing the potential path of a giant hurricane hurtling towards Florida when in walks some dude with face-paint and a war bonnet.
Just Trump’s way of informing other agencies that the right move is to let Musk in in the first place.
We’re only in week 3. I was curious how the DOGE would work and I like what I’m seeing. USAID has been basically shuttered and they’re moving to next target. It’s well past time that these government pukes felt fear.
What exactly is “climate resilience programming?”
When I read a phrase like that I don’t know what to think! Except that I think somebody is up to no good!
It’s the shopping channel that sells rain gear.
Are they going to be closing NOAA’s “climate justice” division?
Asking for some hurricane-oppressed friends.
It’s funny that they should worry about having enough people to do weather forecasts when computers do most of the work.
Use an Old Farmer’s Almanac. Just as accurate as NOAA
NOAA is just another pimp for CLIMATE CHANGE. They are predicting climate, not weather. They cannot even predict weather more than a few days out and, and we are supposed to believe their ‘climate’ predictions as holy writ. Science is replaced by ideology at NOAA.
NOAA has wheat and chaff. The wheat of the agency I’d put at about 80% of the staff, who actually measure numbers, make estimates, and various other critical elements of an office. The chaff have been taking money to warp numbers, corrupt accurate databases with ‘corrections’ and ‘adjustments’ while producing future climate predictions threatening ultimate doom. Prying out the chaff will take a lot of work. They’re moneymakers, pulling in grants and assigning that money to minions who are told the numbers they need to produce at the end of the process.
I don’t care if the entire workforce of NOAA is made up of left-handed Lithuanian lesbians, as long as they produce accurate numbers and accurate forecasts instead of what we’ve seen out of them recently.
Only those employed by government or quasi-government (think Unis and schools) have never had to face belt-tightening and downsizing.
The private sector is not sympathetic to these squeals of
“Oh noes; people will get fired and apocalypses approaches!!”.
Reports as to numbers of Affirmative found who are not competent and of those who are competent would be interesting, also total of DEI, in each agency.
Impossible to measure because -trust me here- there are NO Federal Employee Managers dumb enough to have given a bad review to a DEI hire.
From the Politico article:
Among other things, the memorandum of understanding will identify ways to incorporate Western science practices with traditional ecological knowledge…
This is why DEI is a cancer, it turns us back towards the Dark Ages. Western science (you mean Science?) is based upon “practices” while indigenous mythology is knowledge? Religion is practiced, science is the pursuit of deepening our knowledge of the universe around us.
Good riddance, I say.
Keep in mind that when Western Europeans first began to colonize the Americas, a mere 500 years ago, Native Americans were effectively still living in the Paleolithic.
Hey! Child sacrifice is a… sacrifice, sure, but if it diverts only one tornado…!
“The staff within the agency is….upset.”
I went to the CNN link, and as we might expect, one gets fed warnings of dire consequences should NWS suffer a staff cut. The following quote caught my attention.
“There are a lot more storms now than 20 to 30 years ago. Any strain on staff is going to have a negative impact on that product and maybe the forecast itself because you won’t have as much time to think about it as you otherwise would.”
Is that true? I went to the appropriate section of Steve Koonin’s book on hurricanes. Well the statement is literally true, and follows the narrative that warming causes more frequent and intense hurricanes. But as Koonin found out, it’s based on a plot that cuts off at 1970. When one looks at more complete data you find a different story. The power dissipation index goes up and down. Down from 1946 to 1975, then up to 2005, then down to 2010, and then up again, The correlation is very weak. The government’s Climate Science Special Report buries the lede on a key finding. So what both CNN and NOAA tells us is deceiving. Hurricanes are not becoming more intense to an alarming degree. There is a slight increase in frequency since 1855, and a decrease since about 2010.
Both CNN and NOAA are trying to scare the public as to the consequences of a small staff cut.
Oden – you are correct that the using baseline of 1970 for hurricanes is willful fraud just as is the Arctic Ice using the baseline of 1978 for ice melt.
The claims are always presented as “…the most ‘X’ since measurement began.”
But the fact that those particular measurements only go back 50 years or less is never mentioned.
https://nsidc.org/news-analyses/news-stories/modern-sea-ice-satellite-record-turns-40
But what will happen to the “climate models”? Will they fire them too?
They’ll do fine on OzoneFans.
As long as they invest in a little lipo first, to “hide the decline.”
I think that the whole mission of NOAA needs to be reexamined. For example, today IBM (Weather Channel, and others) provids an more accurate weather forecasting service than the Feds. I suspect that NOAA still has a role to play but in light of current technologies, certain services could be eliminated w/o impact to users.
“5-10% cut of staff could mean for their ability to operate weather radar and provide timely and free forecasts for this year’s hurricane season,”
Well since those cuts will be for the dei staff and the climate change staff, I don’t see a problem for the hurricane enthusiasts staff.
It’s all fun and games until the racist hurricanes show up.
Get rid of NOAA. Keep the NWS for forecasting and hurricane warnings ad predictions. The rest can join the unemployment line.
“Indigenous knowledge”? Oh, kinda like ripping out people’s hearts and offering them to the weather gods? Kinda like that?
I accept the possibility that NOAA has functions that they do better than any one else, but I believe this needs to be proven and quantified before restoring funding and staffing levels.
The priority IMO should be outing the BS weather station locations. They put them in what was a field surrounded by other fields and woodland 50 or more years ago but today that location is surrounded by strip malls, concrete, glass, sitting in parking lot or worse right next to HVAC exhaust. The temperature data from these locations is compromised. Put out new stations away from the urban heat sinks and temperature data will be far more reliable. Of course the likely far lower temp data will blow up the BS climate change narrative and the boondoggle grants that were issued to ‘study and combat’ it. Expect even more unhinged shrieking from wokiesta leftists.
These federal agencies that have prioritized filling race/gender/sexual orientation quotas at taxpayer expense need to be punished for what they have done. Science takes a back seat to making sure Lakisha and Joe…formerly Josephine…are put into a high paying science position, by virtue of their useless liberal arts degrees. That way, all the white uber liberals at the agency can sleep better at night, having assuaged their white, heterosexual guilt that tortures them relentlessly.
“ Inside the NWS, there are grave fears of what a potential 5-10% cut of staff could mean for their ability to operate weather radar and provide timely and free forecasts for this year’s hurricane season, a person familiar with the situation told CNN.
“The people of the Weather Service are as fine as you’ll get in terms of getting the mission done, but it would be a pretty substantial cut,” the person said. “People are scared. They’ve never had this type of uncertainty really hang over them.””
They’re playing the “cut the police and firefighters first” game.