Who Needs Noaa When You’ve Got Project 2025? | Pat Beall

You got your war on women, you got your war on drugs, you got your not-really war on Christmas and now, courtesy of Project 2025, you got your war on weather. Just as South Florida heads into the teeth of the mean season, the good folks at the Heritage Foundation have a plan for dealing with rain, hail, waterspouts, searing heat, inland flooding and the wind monsters formerly known as hurricanes — just stop looking. Pat Beall is an editorial writer and columnist for the Sun Sentinel. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 weighs in at 880-plus pages, so it’s totally understandable if you missed the chapter on taking apart the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and either trashing its component bits — including the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center — or placing those bits in the loving hands of the private sector, aka “fat contracts for friends.” I mean, you might have been busy bailing out from the rain that closed two emergency rooms in Broward this week.