Does Project 2025 recommend dismantling NOAA? [Video]

Project 2025 claims the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association is a main driver “of the climate change alarm industry” and should be “broken up.”

VERIFY readers have sent us dozens of questions about Project 2025 ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Project 2025 is an initiative launched by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation to transform the federal government during the next conservative administration.

Multiple social media posts claim Project 2025 plans to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). NOAA is a federal agency that provides daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, climate predictions and projections, as well as nautical charts and navigational information.

“Project 2025 has in its 900 pages a plan to get rid of the NOAA. The NOAA provides your weather predictions, the prediction and tracking of hurricanes, marine commerce support, other severe storm warnings, climate monitoring, and more. Unreal,” says a Facebook post with over 35,000 shares.

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