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dalton99a

(95,687 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 08:34 PM 15 hrs ago

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.
By Eric Niiler
June 1, 2026, 6:19 p.m. ET

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.

The National Science Foundation said it would send ships in June to begin removing more than 900 deep-sea instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington State, Alaska, North Carolina, and an area between Greenland and Iceland known as the Irminger Sea.

Scientists have used data from the system to understand how the ocean is absorbing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, how changes in ocean temperature such as marine heat waves might affect fisheries or signal bigger shifts in the climate, and coastal flooding along the East Coast.

The station in the Irminger Sea has been key to understanding changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, a global conveyor belt of water that some scientists are concerned may be weakening as a result of climate warming. A collapse of the current could have severe weather effects.

It cost $48 million annually to operate the network. The Trump administration repeatedly tried to shutter it, proposing to cut its funding by 80 percent in both 2025 and again in 2026. Congress pushed back, restoring the money.

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System (Original Post) dalton99a 15 hrs ago OP
Someone call the Avengers superpatriotman 15 hrs ago #1
If you don't monitor it, it's not happening, right? Ocelot II 15 hrs ago #2
+1 dalton99a 15 hrs ago #4
This immediately came to mind too! Mad_Machine76 13 hrs ago #18
Just like not doing covid tests. wnylib 15 hrs ago #6
More like delete facts/discovery that harms GOP/MAGA views. Nt BadgerKid 13 hrs ago #13
If you erase the data or stop the data then a fact no longer exists, I guess. Problem solved. Snort. Solly Mack 15 hrs ago #3
That 48M could be going to Donnie's pocket. Buzz cook 15 hrs ago #5
Or hide out in a bunker. wnylib 15 hrs ago #8
This kind of crap only promotes more stupidity. Emile 15 hrs ago #7
The science that we are capable of is like a precious treasure. yellow dahlia 15 hrs ago #9
They want to make sure the damage is permanent ThoughtCriminal 15 hrs ago #10
It's the Crybaby COVID Corollary making another round AZJonnie 15 hrs ago #11
That information is also very useful to the Navy, and that was probably used to justify the cost in the first place. eppur_se_muova 13 hrs ago #12
Why??? BlueWaveNeverEnd 13 hrs ago #14
Because it owns Libtards. That's it. That's all it is, and all it ever was. hatrack 13 hrs ago #17
Our to-do list just got longer Wild blueberry 13 hrs ago #15
"collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research." Botany 13 hrs ago #16
Democrats when back in control timms139 13 hrs ago #19
Maybe some billionaire will pony up and save it ..... Nah. Better to have a ballroom. rickford66 12 hrs ago #20
And lots and lots of penis rockets, and Met Gala sponsorships!!! hatrack 5 hrs ago #21

Mad_Machine76

(25,038 posts)
18. This immediately came to mind too!
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:57 PM
13 hrs ago

After all, if you just hide reality, it just stops existing.....

Solly Mack

(97,309 posts)
3. If you erase the data or stop the data then a fact no longer exists, I guess. Problem solved. Snort.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 08:41 PM
15 hrs ago

Then there is - where is the money going now? Whose pockets?

Buzz cook

(2,928 posts)
5. That 48M could be going to Donnie's pocket.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 08:47 PM
15 hrs ago

It's just like a hostile take over. Get control, strip the assets, and walk away from the wreck..

Emile

(43,572 posts)
7. This kind of crap only promotes more stupidity.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 08:53 PM
15 hrs ago

Here in the midwest I been seeing more and more yard signs. No Wind Mills, No Solar Farms, stupid signs.

yellow dahlia

(6,614 posts)
9. The science that we are capable of is like a precious treasure.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 08:54 PM
15 hrs ago

There is a return on investment that is immeasurable.

It is like throwing a priceless work of art into the dumpster. And with it throwing out years of investment. There will be a building of infrastructure that will be lost, and will have to be replicated when we repair this government.

I am so sick of the destruction!!!

ThoughtCriminal

(14,761 posts)
10. They want to make sure the damage is permanent
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:01 PM
15 hrs ago

It's not enough to steal everything in site and destroy the rest. The want to salt the Earth and make us pay for it.

AZJonnie

(4,113 posts)
11. It's the Crybaby COVID Corollary making another round
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:03 PM
15 hrs ago

You remember? "Less people would have COVID if you just stopped testing so many people for COVID!!!1!"

Same evil, stupid bullshit.

OUR elected representatives, the rightful and Constitutional arbiters of the investment of our tax dollars, created the system, and OUR taxes paid for all this gear and the setup. Now a nutjob, grifting POTUS wants to destroy our investment, so he can protect his cronies and contributors in the fossil fuel industry from liability and loss of profits that might flow from the government monitoring the impact of their climate-destroying product!?!

F*** THIS SHIT!!! Who will be the first to sue to stop this?

eppur_se_muova

(42,634 posts)
12. That information is also very useful to the Navy, and that was probably used to justify the cost in the first place.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:25 PM
13 hrs ago

The Navy does NOT like to talk about why all that data is useful necessarily; they'd rather not let our rivals know what we are capable of, or give them clues about how they could screw things up. Perhaps some Uglican(s) on the Armed Services Committees could have some private conversations w/Trmp.

hatrack

(65,231 posts)
17. Because it owns Libtards. That's it. That's all it is, and all it ever was.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:52 PM
13 hrs ago

It pisses off smart people who know something about how the world works.

That's why.

Botany

(77,978 posts)
16. "collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research."
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:50 PM
13 hrs ago

‘nuff said.

Trump knows his days are numbered and he is not bothered that the world he leaves
behind has a climate that drowns New Orleans, causes the blue whale to go extinct,
and a multitude of other nightmare scenarios. Trump promised the fossil fuel industries
that if they gave him a billion dollars and worked for his election he would shut down climate
science.

timms139

(572 posts)
19. Democrats when back in control
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:58 PM
13 hrs ago

should let the important things Trump has destroyed linger long enough for Texas and Florida red hats suffer a couple times because of the lack of info to warn them .

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