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Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
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Re: Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look, I vote blue too, but you can't ignore that the Democrats have also pushed the slider further and further toward executive power every chance they get. Well, I guess I can't tell you what to do, so I suppose you can.
I don't "vote blue." I vote for whichever candidate offers the most realistic solutions to the problem at hand. At times this may be "blue" but not necessarily. I have also voted 3rd party and skipped voting for a specific role alotgether. Also, not even sure what you are talking about. My point specifically was about the congress, where the Republicans have stonewalled legislation, stolen SCOTUS seats, and shut down…
Okay, you can scroll back up and see that the thread is about the erosion of checks and balances. After that, you can do a web search to read either about the Clinton administration's increased partisan direction of federal agencies, or Obama's increase in both scope and number of executive orders.
Presidential powers have been ratcheting up for at lest thirty years. And neither party seems particularly interested in turning the dial back once they're in power.
Re: Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
> each citizen has a volition and a voice and a vote Each citizen can't evaluate climate data. Specialization is necessary.
Each citizen doesn't need to, only some citizens need be able to. Because the data is available. Not sure about you, but I'm glad we moved away from a system where an anointed cadre of people tell us what's what.
> Each citizen doesn't need to, only some citizens need be able to.
> I'm glad we moved away from a system where an anointed cadre of people tell us what's what.
Those 'some citizens' are the experts. The 'annointed cadre' thing is just undefined, meaningless BS. Do you think that, lacking expertise, you can distinguish real experts from fraud, valid ideas and facts from misinformation? You can't; the people who think they can, those are the suckers - the ones they target to manipulate.
Re: Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
#224This may be a controversial view, but I don't think we should trust the actor in charge of regulating and limiting emissions with its own supervision. The Federal Government has a plethora of agencies which regulate pollution and energy usage; how can we trust either its legislative or executive branch to ensure that their creations are effective or efficient? To that end, I hope the Trump administration's actions ca…
The point of a democracy is the people regulate it. It seems we are so far from a democracy and people feel so little agency, that we forget this.
Yes, this should be done by the government. Yes the people MUST make sure the government is doing what they want.
The problem with putting work like this in private hands is they are not as accountable to the people as a government SHOULD be.
Re: Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like 50% if you also count the stuff I pay for that is a direct benefit to me at retirement (as does anyone who pays into social security). So it might be a little nitpicky, and your point still stands. A lot of money is spent on defense and business, but not as much as the before portrays. Where businesses benefit is in not paying the tax, instead of receiving payments. That's definitely a problem, but it's a d…
> It's like 50% if you also count the stuff I pay for that is a direct benefit to me at retirement (as does anyone who pays into social security) It’s not though. The social security you pay is used to fund the current social security payouts. It’s not saved away for you
Okay? If I pay in and then get that benefit when it's my time to draw that benefit, it doesn't matter if it's my actual dollar or not. Technically right isn't the best right sometimes.
Also my point was that the original claim of 2/3 of the federal budget going to social programs is just wrong. It's well under half unless you count ss. Then it's about half.
Re: Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are skipping a few layers here. Like those who know stuff like «crumbling asbestos air ducts in schools may be a bad idea». Why do so many grown-ups fail civics 101 so blatantly?
They are doing the gag where they just describe representative democracy like it is a novel idea. Practically we also need expert organizations and agencies to help advise the representative and implement their ideas, but I wouldn’t describe glossing over that sort of detail as “failing civics 101.”
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Re: Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
haha yeah why would i believe something Project 2025 stated, haha silly me
If there is an active attempt at privatizing NOAA then you should be able to point to specific, real-world things that are happening to effect this change.
"The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated"
That's a direct quote.
The fact that it wasn't first on the list doesn't mean it's not on the list.
(no response needed; I know that you're a partisan actor to the degree that direct discussion with you offers no value to myself or to society. You're too dishonest, too sociopathic, and too disinterested in truth.)