'Cruel and thoughtless': Trump fires hundreds at US climate agency Noaa

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Source: The Guardian

Thu 27 Feb 2025 17.47 EST
Last modified on Thu 27 Feb 2025 17.51 EST


The Trump administration has fired hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US’s pre-eminent climate research agency housed within the Department of Commerce, the Guardian has learned. On Thursday afternoon, the commerce department sent emails to employees saying their jobs would be cut off at the end of the day, in a move that one worker called “wrong all around”.

Other government agencies have also seen massive staffing cuts in recent days. The firings specifically affected probationary employees, a categorization that applies to new hires or those moved or promoted into new positions, and which makes up roughly 10% of the agency’s workforce.

“The majority of probationary employees in my office have been with the agency for 10+ years and just got new positions,” said one worker who still had their job, and who spoke to the Guardian under the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. “If we lose them, we’re losing not just the world-class work they do day to day but also decades of expertise and institutional knowledge.” Another anonymous staffer called the laid-off workers “dedicated, hard-working civil servants who came to Noaa to help protect lives and keep our blue planet healthy”.

“These indiscriminate cuts are cruel and thoughtless,” the second worker said. It is not only laid-off employees who will be harmed by the cuts, the second worker said. Ordinary Americans who rely on Noaa’s extreme weather forecasts, climate data and sustainably-monitored fisheries will also suffer. “Words can’t describe the impact this will have, both on us at Noaa and on the country,” the employee said. “It’s just wrong all around.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-noaa-cuts-climate

[stillcool]

1. I feel sick.

[slightlv]

19. I am sick, stillcool... sick at heart for so much that

musk/trump has done to kill our democracy and force our government down the trash barrels. Although I'm going to be participating tomorrow, I don't see how a one day boycott... a no-buy anything- day... can make any kind of impression on anyone. While I didn't like the sound of it, I'm warming up to the one-week buy-nothing boycott that's been bandied about. It would be hard where grocery and cat food is concerned. I don't like stocking meat in my freezer because 1) I can't afford more than a single meat item or two 2) I have a small refrig with an even smaller freezer in the top. The one thing I am going to start doing is looking for vegetarian high-protein meals to experiment with. BUT I am expecting trump/musks tariffs on Mexico (especially) and Canada to contribute to rising prices on fruits and vegetables.

Damn... it's this entire administration that is sick, sick, sick!

[BoRaGard]

2. A suicidal impulse. G.O.P. krapping on the kids.

The repubes are totally anti-truth and anti-facts --- the modern Know-Nothing Party

[love_katz]

12. And their party and its sycophants dare to say they're pro-life.

[2naSalit]

3. This won't last long...

The deep south is about to have a tornado filled couple days next week so that will be a point of issue along with no FEMA to help afterward.

I can see a version of J6 at the WH, many of the same people too.

[hadEnuf]

8. Fox news and the other suck ups just won't report it o they never happened.

Is it time for Radio Free America yet?

[Gimpyknee]

11. Wishful thinking.

[BigMin28]

4. Just in time

For spring tornado season followed shortly by hurricane season. We are a third world shithole country now.

[tanyev]

5. Good thing any vicious hurricanes headed for Mar a Lago can be redirected with a Sharpie!

[royable]

14. I want a cat 10 hurricane to park itself

on Lard-a-Merdo for about a week. With no advance notice due to the gutting of NOAA.

[J_William_Ryan]

6. 'Cruel and thoughtless'

That’s Trump, cruel and thoughtless, along with stupid and willfully ignorant – harming ordinary Americans.

[ffr]

7. QOP wrecking ball

I suppose things were going too smoothly for Americans these past four years. Time to turn up the heat again. Astonishingly stupid, what is happening!

[moonshinegnomie]

9. theyare predicting severe storme in east texas,louisiana and arkansas next week

if a couple red towns get wiped out with little warning i wont care at all. im past the point of giveing a rats ass about any of those fuckers who voted for dipshit. as the song goes, my give a damn's busted

[wiggs]

10. They literally love cruel, heartless, and thoughtless. Getting away with lies, damage, grabbing parts, etc is

part of their disorder.

Articles and discussions need to focus not just on process but on the damage being done which will long outlive the sick f*cks who are causing this. And that includes the enabling gop elected officials who express 'concern' but do nothing to stop it. In fact they are the only ones who can stop it.

[surfered]

13. The citizenry is hereby advised not to look up.

[sakabatou]

15. And then they'll desperate try and hire them back around hurricane season

[ultralite001]

16. Using F47's logic...

It there's no reporting, there are no disasters...

[johnnyfins]

17. On some level

This is infantile "payback", for them not giving in to his sharpie modified hurricane path.

ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT.

[johnnyfins]

18. Also, for an admin thats looking to sow

Chaos in the American streets, this is a lot of bang for the buck. Surprise destruction will do wonders for your support, sick fuck.

[pansypoo53219]

20. my cousin might actually get a clue. for an atmospheric Ph.d, he is rite wing stupid as his dad.

[raccoon]

21. When hurricane season comes around, with its usual hazards, and some people not having homeowners

insurance now, this should work just great.

[Old Crank]

22. This will kill people.

Disgusting.