> “They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former Noaa official who is now a fellow at the University of New Hampshire. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”
> Project 2025, written by several former Trump staffers, has called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to US prosperity” for its role in climate science.
> He also argued there is no legal authority to abolish Noaa or reduce its budget, outside of reducing it through Congress.
> “There’s no real transparency. They just show up wherever they want, do whatever they want. They’re following through on major budget cuts and major staffing cuts,” Rosenberg added. “I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
After WWII, a lot of talent came from Europe to the US, and the US benefited greatly. With the current trend, I could see a lot of unemployed government scientists, and I wouldn't see them going to work for some of these large US companies in the news. So, I wonder if the US will experience a reverse brain drain, with talent going to other countries.
Not only after WWII, but before. The Nazis made many people flee to the US, e.g. Einstein fled to the US in 1933. For Germany in particular there was a brain drain (and then mass killing of Jews) that devastated German intelligentsia and we never recovered from, look at Nobel Prize laureates before and after the Nazis, artists before and after the Nazis, and on and on goes the list.
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 9.4 ms ] thread> Project 2025, written by several former Trump staffers, has called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to US prosperity” for its role in climate science.
> He also argued there is no legal authority to abolish Noaa or reduce its budget, outside of reducing it through Congress.
> “There’s no real transparency. They just show up wherever they want, do whatever they want. They’re following through on major budget cuts and major staffing cuts,” Rosenberg added. “I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
What else is on Project 2025 that hasn’t happened yet?