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Another big what's-the-endgame speculation challenge. One would assume that accelerating the ongoing collapse of Florida's real estate market by withholding information crucial to preventing hurricane losses doesn't redound to the benefit of anyone in Trump's orbit, so why do it? Like if you could spend public money to make sure your properties continue to be insurable, wouldn't that be a no-brainer?
The idea is to open the market for private weather forecasting.
Outlets like "The Weather Company LLC" are trying to figure out how to charge for privatized weather forecasts while publicly funded groups provide a better product for free. Better to kneecap any free alternatives, so people are forced to buy a subscription to your service.
So, "The Weather Company LLC" funds political campaigns, position themselves as the plucky free market alternative to communist big government weather forecasting, and as the ability of NOAA and other organizations to forecast is eroded, airlines/news outlets/etc all start to sign lucrative contracts with TWC.
"But what about hurricane forecasting?" You ask. Well. As soon as they figure out a way to monetize it, they will be happy to offer a monthly subscription. Same with tornado alerts and global warming research.
This will just result in piracy but for checking the weather