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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.htmlTrump 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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superpatriotman
(6,883 posts)Im sick of this destroyer.
Also call Malaise.
Ocelot II
(131,473 posts)
Mad_Machine76
(25,038 posts)After all, if you just hide reality, it just stops existing.....
wnylib
(26,598 posts)BadgerKid
(5,035 posts)Solly Mack
(97,309 posts)Then there is - where is the money going now? Whose pockets?
Buzz cook
(2,928 posts)It's just like a hostile take over. Get control, strip the assets, and walk away from the wreck..
wnylib
(26,598 posts)Emile
(43,572 posts)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)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)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)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)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.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,149 posts)hatrack
(65,231 posts)It pisses off smart people who know something about how the world works.
That's why.
Wild blueberry
(8,387 posts)Way past fury. Ready to roll up my sleeves.
Botany
(77,978 posts)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)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 .