Scientists know that extreme weather events are becoming more severe, Austyn Gaffney reports. But the Trump administration’s actions are holding them back from predicting how bad floods could get:
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The insurance industry will be adjusting federal opinion here pretty soon. It's going to mean that large parcels of primo coastal property will become uninsurable... That will kill the local real estate markets and wreck the local tax base. The sins of decades of building where we shouldn't have.
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The $2B the Saudis gave to Trump family may have been for shoving America’s head in the sand when it comes to climate change and prolong dependence on fossil fuels as long as possible. Same thing Russia would want from Trump.
aug 31, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
New headline: Lawless thugs ignore science putting American's at greater danger for extreme financial hardship
aug 31, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
The Trump administration is doing that thing your toddler did when he was in trouble. In silencing NOAA, what they’re really doing is clapping their hands over their eyes and saying “Can’t see me!” Like infectious diseases, they believe that if you don’t predict the tornado, it never comes. Right?
aug 31, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Hope someone is keeping the death count. My neighbors died during Helene last year. Kerrville this year. Diminished ability for the weather service to warn us...... What could go wrong?
aug 31, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't think most people realize how desperate the situation is regarding severe weather disasters or how much loss of life and damage cutting NOAA and NWS is going to cause.
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
You vegan?
aug 31, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
"That's unfair. Why don't you ever report on how *good* the weather is?!" ~ some orange twit
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