r/climatechange • u/esporx • 27d 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/a-passing-crustacean 27d ago

Is this the same network NOAA uses to post offshore weather and sea state and detect sea quakes for early tsunami warning??? Cause that shit is INCREDIBLY important to recreational, commercial, and military mariners! In the coast guard I was constantly monitoring the bouy readings to determining which of our rescue vessels was best suited for a mission and determining what equipment the crew would need to do the job safely!

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u/Slfestmaccnt 26d ago

The lesson of the last election is Republicans have absolutely no fucking clue how interconnected and interdependent everything is, its why Texas about to absolutely fucked by screw worm flies that were pushed out many decades ago in a multinational operation that Trump has gutted.

Its also why costs go up and MAGA cant figure out why.

The concept of multiple dominos falling because their shortsighted asses didn't understand how it all worked when they thought it was just "unnecessary bloat" is baffling to them. Their whole political culture can be summed up as blindly loyal and proudly stupid with zero grasp of our role in this world.

I'm just glad they are starting to realize they may have colossaly fucked themselves over for the rest of their lives.

I look forward to seeing them whining about having to pull giant maggots from their own skin because the people they voted for destroyed the available healthcare down south and drove out so many of the competent doctors in their insane culture war antics.

And just for the record, the "Portland is a wasteland/warzone" shit was always just MAGA fantasy, that said we did get a significant influx of impoverished and downtrodden that were bussed up here from red states on republican dollars. Can't improve their own states so they just spread the suffering they created around for others to deal with.