• silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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    They have two things going on:

    • the historical weather data is what gets used to show past climate and the change we are seeing
    • the founder of AccuWeather thinks he can make more money if government forecasts are less accurate and paid his way into the upper echelon of the Republican Party.
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      Yeah, I’m sure there’s a privatisation play going on, but there’s no way you can actually make money on providing weather forecasts if you’re suddenly going to be needing to put weather stations everywhere. I guess they’ll just force the government to keep paying for those and just do the forecasting based on the raw data.