You mean like the ones that got it wrong?


Dave wrote:
Doug, if I had $5 for every time NOAA got the marine forecast wrong, I'd be
a wealthy man

I agree. But that has ZERO relevance to the issue at hand. In the case
you were discussing above, NOAA got it right and the commercial
forecasters got it wrong... in big way, with lives at stake.


... I'm sure even you recognize the fallacy of arguing from the
proposition that the private company erred once to the conclusion that the
private company gets it wrong more often than NOAA.

So, the private companies can use NOAA data which we paid for, to get
more accurate forecasts? Can you back that premise with any facts?



.... We
would indeed have had to rely on a single forecast-- the "official" one --
as the only available forecast.

Sort of like the way the Bush Administration uses gov't funds to pay for
fake news, and wishes heartily that this was our only source of info?


The odor of red herring is overwhelming me.


You can mask it with your sanctimonious air and atmosphere of condescension.

DSK