'Fundamental corruption': Bill Nye unloads on Elon Musk's alleged self-dealing
Weather experts predict that Elon Musk's latest round of government firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including at the National Weather Service, will almost certainly make it more difficult to predict dangerous weather emergencies as quickly as needed.
As the Washington Post reported, "The administration let go of meteorologists, hydrologists and technicians that help inform daily weather forecasts in places including Boston and Boise, Idaho. It fired scientists who build, improve and maintain weather models that form the backbone of weather forecasting around the globe. Staff at offices responsible for warning the public about tsunamis, tornadoes and hurricanes lost their jobs, as did an entire team dedicated to communicating NOAA’s work and science to the public."
On CNN Monday, Bill "The Science Guy" Nye claimed that the mass layoffs pointed to "fundamental corruption," as Musk seeks to replace NOAA with his own Starlink system.
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"Mr. Musk has this company, Starlink, and he's proposing that NOAA be supplanted by a private company. And just to the young guys that have gone to work on this, that have gone in to the digital services office to destroy or mess up our electronic systems, keep in mind that this is fundamental corruption. This is, it's just corruption when you're trying to monopolize a government service."
Nye claimed that Musk is well known for his "unrealistic goal setting."
"So, he found this weak part, this weakness in the U.S. government, exploited it as fast as he could, and now, it's one thing leading to another and he's trying to undo a public service and supplant it with one of his. And this is is just good old corruption. So, sooner or later, I believe the court system will catch up with these guys. And, so, it's just going to be, it's just — talk about efficiency. Destroying a system that was working and then trying to replace it later is inefficient."
Nye added, "By dismantling this public service, you're not serving the public...This is in nobody's best interest."
