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    If it was focused they’d leave the weather forecast alone and only targeted climate change. Instead they cut everything.

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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.