Weather: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

What people said

fragmede · 2025-06 · Reference

John Oliver had a whole episode about this [VIDEO] tl;dw: AccuWeather, whos CEO donated to Trump's campaign.

Read the original HN comment ↗

throw0101c · 2025-03 · Reference

> Among its other duties, NOAA employs thousands of people to help accurately predict the weather through the National Weather Service; privatizing federal weather data has long been a project of some conservative lawmakers too. John Oliver had a show on this during Trump 1.0: * [VIDEO]

Read the original HN comment ↗

throw0101c · 2025-03 · Reference

Project 2025's plan for NOAA is in the Department of Commerce chapter: > Break Up NOAA. The single biggest Department of Commerce agency outside of decennial census years is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components. NOAA garners $6.5 billion of the department’s $12 billion annual operational budget and accounts for more than half of the department’s personnel in non-decadal Census years (2021 figures). […] > The NWS provides data the private companies use and should focus on its data-gathering services. Because private companies rely on these data, the NWS should fully commercialize its forecasting operations. […] > Downsize the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. OAR provides theoretical science, as opposed to the applied science of the National Hurricane Center. OAR is, however, the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism. The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded. OAR is a large network of research laboratories, an undersea research center, and several joint research institutes with universities. These operations should be reviewed with an aim of consolidation and reduction of bloat. * [LINK] John Oliver did a segment on (privatizing) weather during Trump 1.0: * [VIDEO]

Read the original HN comment ↗