- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- climate@slrpnk.net
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I wonder if there’s any sort of alternative, community weather system that is run for the public good. I’m envisioning an open source ecosystem where people buy commodity weather instruments (barometers, thermometers, anemometers) and then connect them to a program which feeds them to a larger decentralized network. Then people could make visuals of the conglomerate data to see low pressure and high pressure areas, track storms, etc. If that backbone existed you could also create a distributed computational model like we see in projects like ‘folding from home’ in order to create forecast maps. Just spitballing but if anybody knows of programs that do any part of this I’d love to hear about them
https://www.weather.gov/cle/CWOP
It is likely networks like this will be adopted by a university or volunteer should the need arise. Search the keyword “citizen science.”
I vaguely recall Thatcher government in UK also tried to privatise the weather, added layers of complicated accounting (not sure how is now - how much of this got rolled back ? ).
They want to nickle and dime you for everything.
Time to set up our own LoRa stations and decentralize our data worldwide
Wind chimes, a barometer and a thermometer will make it obvious if bad weather is rolling in. Problem is, we need predictive data.
see this is the kinda shit i don’t understand, what do they gain from this? It’s like banning umbrellas, are they literally just trying to optimize suffering and deaths?
Trump is mad at NOAA for reporting a reality that contradicts his delusions:
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-nominates-sharpiegate-scientist-lead-193834394.html
How do you deny human climate change when the data is unequivocal?
Get rid of the data of course.
No, they’re trying to optimize profits. News outlets will still be expected to do weather reports. Tons of jobs will still require weather data. This way, they can sell access to that data through private firms like AccuWeather.
It’s business.
Less govt infrastructure and more money paid to private organisations.
Every job cut from government offices is a job created in a private firm.
Truth is anathema to those who profit from misinformation.
I’m not okay.
They want to put us under mushrooms and shit on us so we won’t know anything at all.
Close. It’s called “mushrooming”, keep the subject in the dark and shit on them.
Thank you for the clarification.
I used to work at a place, and in my cubicle I drew a picture of a cubicle drone under a mushroom (not a bad pic either), and I had to explain it to people.
Thanks again.
Heeey ! What’s wrong with mushrooms? I mean they are literally anti-consumer/anti-capitalism/…
There’s nothing wrong with them except they open your eyes to how shitty our society is and to become anti-consumer. That wouldn’t fit their agenda and that’s also why the food of gods are illegal :| !
