*The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cannot reveal weather forecasts from a particularly accurate hurricane prediction model to the public that pays for the American government agency – because of a deal with a private insurance risk firm.*
*The model at issue is called the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) Corrected Consensus Approach (HCCA). In 2023, it was deemed in a National Hurricane Center (NHC) report to be one of the two “best performers,” the other being a model called IVCN (Intensity Variable Consensus).*
*A 2020 contract between NOAA and RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences, disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Washington Post, requires NOAA to keep HCCA forecasts – which incorporate a proprietary technique from RenaissanceRe – secret for five years.*
*The deal is scheduled to expire next year, and NOAA reportedly expects to release HCCA model data in time for the 2025 hurricane season.*
*But in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene – which hit the US southeast, left a 800-mile trail of destruction, and is said to have killed at least 130 people since Thursday – there are calls to make HCCA data available sooner.*
*”Placing business interests over public disclosure cannot be the precedent for public-private industry partnerships, and certainly not for projects that have the ability to save lives,” said Lauren Harper, Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, in an article last week.*
onceinawhile222 on
Wonder who was in charge in 2020 when that deal was made?
7screws on
This is exactly what privatizing does to a government
AJ_Mexico on
Meanwhile, the public forecasts for hurricane Helene were extremely accurate.
Master-Back-2899 on
Ok but Helene was basically perfectly predicted by every model. It was like a textbook hurricane.
Outrage bait.
CAM6913 on
BS __CLICK BAIT__ Helene was precisely predicted way ahead of time and people were warned. Trump and his project 2025 have stated they will get rid of NOAA and want to get rid of networks that he views negatively. This is a MAGA click bait article to try to cast blame on Biden’s administration
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Politicians sell out to soulless corporations again. “Should” is quoted twice. “Should” is synonymous with a “wish” that policy will change in 2025. It doesn’t mean anything will change in a meaningful way.
Which insurance company? Is it owned by Warren Buffet?
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Excerpts from [article](https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/01/government_hurricane_forecast_secrecy/) by Thomas Claburn:
*The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cannot reveal weather forecasts from a particularly accurate hurricane prediction model to the public that pays for the American government agency – because of a deal with a private insurance risk firm.*
*The model at issue is called the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP) Corrected Consensus Approach (HCCA). In 2023, it was deemed in a National Hurricane Center (NHC) report to be one of the two “best performers,” the other being a model called IVCN (Intensity Variable Consensus).*
*A 2020 contract between NOAA and RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences, disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Washington Post, requires NOAA to keep HCCA forecasts – which incorporate a proprietary technique from RenaissanceRe – secret for five years.*
*The deal is scheduled to expire next year, and NOAA reportedly expects to release HCCA model data in time for the 2025 hurricane season.*
*But in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene – which hit the US southeast, left a 800-mile trail of destruction, and is said to have killed at least 130 people since Thursday – there are calls to make HCCA data available sooner.*
*”Placing business interests over public disclosure cannot be the precedent for public-private industry partnerships, and certainly not for projects that have the ability to save lives,” said Lauren Harper, Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, in an article last week.*
Wonder who was in charge in 2020 when that deal was made?
This is exactly what privatizing does to a government
Meanwhile, the public forecasts for hurricane Helene were extremely accurate.
Ok but Helene was basically perfectly predicted by every model. It was like a textbook hurricane.
Outrage bait.
BS __CLICK BAIT__ Helene was precisely predicted way ahead of time and people were warned. Trump and his project 2025 have stated they will get rid of NOAA and want to get rid of networks that he views negatively. This is a MAGA click bait article to try to cast blame on Biden’s administration
Politicians sell out to soulless corporations again. “Should” is quoted twice. “Should” is synonymous with a “wish” that policy will change in 2025. It doesn’t mean anything will change in a meaningful way.
Which insurance company? Is it owned by Warren Buffet?