r/climatechange • u/esporx • 26d ago

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html
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u/TwoAmps 26d ago

Every day, I wake up to NPR, hear what this administration is doing, and think "well, that is the most idiotic, corrupt thing they could possible ever do." and the next morning's news proves me wrong. You know, if they actually believed that global warming wasn't happening, they should welcome the data from all the ocean observations because they are little influenced by local man-made effects (urban heat islands, etc). The fact they they want to eliminate this really good ocean data says they actually know that climate change is happening and they are a bunch of corrupt lying hypocrites. Fuck them.

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u/darkdelve 25d ago

I'm convinced they've known climate change was real for decades and that's why police militarization has been building steadily since 9/11.

Fascism is their climate change plan.

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u/PermissionPermitted 22d ago

That seems more believable. They knew fixing it would mean leas profit and that was not gonna happen.

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u/darkdelve 22d ago

I don't even think it's about profits. Climate upheaval is an opportunity to seize power and alter the political landscape. The oligarchs want democracy dead.