The author of the NOAA section in Project 2025 is nowhere to be found in the new Trump admin AFAICT. If someone knows otherwise, feel free to share.
So I am going to believe that this article is alarmist about total privatization and throwing out unfounded speculation such as this...
"It would be extremely difficult to do all of that without NOAA."
"Could a private company create forecasts on its own without NOAA data?"
"And there’s a question of whether a private company would want to take on the legal risk of being responsible for the nation’s forecasts and severe weather warnings."
Project 2025 never implied any of these things. Heck even [insert your bias level here]-leaning PolitiFact said...
>"We asked several experts who are familiar with the NOAA and the National Weather Service’s work about Moskowitz’s statement. They said Project 2025 doesn’t call for the National Weather Service’s termination..."
