Gov't WASTE
Posted by Mike_Doran on 8/23/2009, 11:40 pm
Another thing that . . . well.  I will try to strip any emotion away from this thought if I can, anyway.

The idea of privatizing the NHC that Accuweather wanted, of course, is mind numblingly stupid.  So that is out there.

However there are clear intra governmental power struggles about who does what and how money . . . research dollars, are spent.  So here you have these multi million dollar sats that the tax payers fund, that get shot up into space and give us these really awesome sets of data, and then on the ground our scientists take information, like from spaceweather.com, and completely ignore it.

Without trying to hype this, to me, this is what it is like.  It's like the NASA phd who was behind some of the planning of a mars lander who switched metric for english in his calculation and literally crashed and burned a multi million dollar lander on mars.  All that tax payer money into a pile of burning crap.

That's what you are doing if you ignore the data that we have, that taxpayers paid for, in the sat data, especially readings from the sun.

The NHC has a LONG way to go.  And it isn't all the problem of the forecasters there--it's management above which is failing to integrate ideas from other branches of gov't.  It's not something I would point at Obama at just yet--it started during the Bush administration with his anti science agenda.  JMO==but it has real consequences what the gov't is doing and I will be damned if like Tim I won't express it.
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Bravo to the National Hurricane Center !! - HSNN4, 8/22/2009, 9:26 pm
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