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To: dirtboy

The question is:

Does the government lower the quality of forecasts by competing in a market better served by private enterprise?


17 posted on 08/22/2007 7:46:47 AM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9 (DR #1692)
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To: NY.SS-Bar9
Does the government lower the quality of forecasts by competing in a market better served by private enterprise?

I don't see how this can be proven, given that weather forecasting itself is highly error-prone, so how do you discern poor quality due to government forecast from poor quality due to the inherent nature of the field itself? I've seen nothing from Accuweather that makes me think they are a marked improvement over the NWS.

18 posted on 08/22/2007 7:53:56 AM PDT by dirtboy (Impeach Chertoff and Gonzales. We can't wait until 2009 for them to be gone.)
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