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AI6YR Ben

Stand Up for NOAA Research — The Time to Act Is Now

April 17, 2025

A Statement of the American Meteorological Society in Partnership with the National Weather Association

The administration’s 2026 budget passback plan, currently under consideration, eliminates NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Office and its 10 research laboratories and 16 affiliated Cooperative Institutes, and moves the few remaining research efforts to different NOAA departments. If enacted, the passback would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.

The speed at which these decisions are being made translates into little to no opportunity for feedback or consideration of long-term impacts. Without NOAA research, National Weather Service (NWS) weather models and products will stagnate, observational data collection will be reduced, public outreach will decrease, undergraduate and graduate student support will drop, and NOAA funding for universities will plummet. In effect, the scientific backbone and workforce needed to keep weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective will be drastically undercut, with unknown — yet almost certainly disastrous — consequences for public safety and economic health. As key stakeholders, AMS and NWA stand ready to provide our expertise so that the U.S. can maintain its competitiveness in the years ahead.

blog.ametsoc.org/2025/04/17/st

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AI6YR Ben

..."“ People who were displaced, lost their houses needed help. They weren't looking for clothing necessarily. They were looking for toiletries or cash or food,” Gullingsrud said. “And so these organizations, they're not clothing collection organizations, but all of a sudden they were clogged.”

And sometimes if they are not set up to handle clothing donations, a lot of it ends up in landfills, like what happened after Hurricane Katrina, she said. Clothing can’t just sit outside in donation centers, she added, because it will become moldy and toxic...."

#disasters#donations
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AI6YR Ben

Way too much used clothing was donated during the Los Angeles wildfires (really... don't need to donate clothing during disasters)

..."“ The trend is that Americans consume more and more clothing and use them fewer times,” he said, “which means that the clothing is still in pretty much pristine condition when we decide to give it away.”....

laist.com/news/what-happened-t

A large group of people sort through heaps of clothing in an open area.
LAist · What happened to all the clothing donated during the LA wildfires?By Yusra Farzan
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AI6YR Ben

Axios: NOAA operations impaired by Commerce chief's approval mandate

"....A Commerce Department requirement to have Secretary Howard Lutnick approve many NOAA contracts or extensions is slowing the agency's operations to a crawl, current and former NOAA staff tell Axios....As severe thunderstorms rumbled along the East Coast on Monday, the National Weather Service faced the possibility of losing its ability to bring satellite and observational data into forecast offices in a timely manner, starting at midnight,..."

axios.com/2025/04/01/noaa-comm

Axios · Scoop: NOAA operations impaired by Commerce chief's approval mandateBy Andrew Freedman
#climate#weather#disasters
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AI6YR Ben

BBC: Mandalay was the 'city of gold' - now it reeks of death

"...So many corpses have piled up since a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck last Friday close to Mandalay, that they have had to be "cremated in stacks", one resident says...."

bbc.com/news/articles/cwyqe7g0

www.bbc.comMandalay was the 'city of gold'. Now it reeks of dead bodiesResidents in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, speak of despair and sleepless nights since last week's earthquake.
#earthquake#Myanmar#disaster
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