Far left reporter Seth Borenstein wrote yesterday afternoon: It is true that cutting the wrong parts of the NWS and NOAA will imperil lives. But it is untrue that nothing can be cut.  The cartoonist and cartoon have already been cut. This wasn't NOAA's mission (doesn't the U.S. have a Department of Education?) and it should never have been started.  But, there is plenty more. Yesterday morning, a highly produced video crossed my twitter feed. As I understand it, it was produced in-house. When did this become part of NOAA's mission? It isn't!  Allegedly, this is (at right) what NOAA spent the past year on outside  video support.  And, this came across my LinkedIn feed last week: Considering that online puzzles are being played while DOGE is shining a light on NOAA/NWS, one must wonder what else is occurring that we don't know about.  And, as Dr. Ryan Maue, former Chief Scientist for NOAA, writes: The National Weather Service is a critical agency that i...

Those who follow me on Twitter saw that question posted to me last week. It is a fair question. Most of the reason I don't post pro-CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic [human-caused] global warming) information more often is that the science on the pro- catastrophic  side is very weak. But, the better response to the scientists' question is in what I do not  post. Below is a clever, wonderful editorial cartoon that I would have loved to run. Very clever and insightful. I grabbed a screen shot and started researching the point it made. And, while it is a great editorial cartoon, it is factually incorrect. Therefore, it didn't get posted. And, more, because a picture is worth a thousand words, I'm not letting you see it because it would -- incorrectly -- put some pro-global warming people in a bad light. That said, I could see where this (invisible) censoring might lead to the incorrect impression I don't have high standards for what goes onto this blog or that ...