Re: “DOGE’s real goal is privatizing government” (Opinion, March 18):
The “Make America Nice Once more” administration is destroying our infrastructure. The company we may have essentially the most is the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Created with bipartisan help, NOAA gives free climate forecasts, serving to communities put together for excessive climate. Versus MAGA’s local weather denial, NOAA is a linchpin in local weather analysis. Assume sea stage rise, our dangers of drought and wildfire.
Mission 2025 and the “Division of Authorities Effectivity” explicitly name for dismantling NOAA to denationalise climate forecasting — undermining public entry to local weather and climate knowledge. (Bear in mind “Sharpiegate,” when President Donald Trump insisted his prediction a few hurricane was extra correct than NOAA’s?) The Union of Involved Scientists delivered a letter to Congress, signed by over 2,500 specialists, urging full funding for NOAA to guard its unbiased science.
America has the world’s greatest scientists as a result of we help a postgraduate infrastructure. I used to be a NOAA Coastal Administration Fellow (1999-2001). By gutting NOAA and different science businesses, a long time of vital analysis might be decimated, portending America’s decline in science and innovation. Abroad establishments are providing funded positions to our scientists. America can pay different nations for information and patents that would have been developed right here.
Teresa Gail Fleener, Burien
