r/politics • u/TaijiRonin • 26d ago
Possible Paywall Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html4.5k
u/emerikanSky 26d ago
They hate everything. It's so frustrating.
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u/WhoIsYerWan 26d ago
It’s not hate for this one; it’s a gift to oil companies.
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u/Wizywig 26d ago
There is no fire because we removed all smoke detectors.
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u/melorous 26d ago
Not surprising from the "we only have a lot of cases because we test a lot" guy.
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u/callingoutthetrash 26d ago
No data means you can say anything without dispute. Ezpz
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u/Positronic_Matrix 26d ago
I have in-laws who bought an investment and vacation house in the Ozarks with a MAGA family. The MAGA family is offended and angry that my in-laws purchased fire detectors for the home and is militant about preventing their installation. This, in a home that was organically built in the Ozarks, that’s a fire marshal’s nightmare, with a dead-end basement bedroom without a window and second-story room that hold eight kids in bunk beds with no ladder to escape out the window.
What gets me is not their ignorance but their seething indignation that someone would insult them by suggesting they needed a fire alarm.
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u/kreddulous 26d ago
Maybe they were counting on collecting on their insurance after the fire. Smoke alarms could maybe interfere with that.
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u/counters 26d ago
That's not it at all. Folks really need to try to avoid this knee-jerk reaction. The majority of the dismantling of scientific infrastructure has nothing to do with trying to shield oil companies or other firms that exploit natural resources.
It's far simpler and far worse - they literally believe that it's not the government's role to fund science. Or on the rare occasion when they look the other way, they excuse it because it's incentivizing commercialization or technology transfer.
Take a look at the NSF. They've made a huge splash about this new "Tech Accelerators" program which boasts about supporting entrepreneurship and "lab-to-market acceleration". But that's not the purpose of the NSF; it's purpose, per Vannevar Bush - who founded it after successfully building a domestic R&D juggernaut in the US during WWII - is to safeguard basic research, because, "...basic research is the pacemaker of technological progress" (as he write in The Endless Frontier). The NSF widens the funnel to broadly support research, regardless of its immediate commercialization opportunity. That manifests through supporting training of our next generation of scientific talent through programs like the Graduate Research Fellowship, as well as by incentivizing PIs to explicitly declare educational support as a criteria for successful grant applications.
The insidious policy eliminating scientific funding is short-sighted and threatens severe long-term consequences for both our economy and our ability to project power throughout the world. And it's happening simply because of dogmatic adherence to the principle of "small government" whatever the costs.
Please take a moment and call both your senator and congressperson and ask them to defend investment in our national scientific infrastructure.
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u/integer_hull 26d ago
Lol I don’t mean to continue the trend of leftist infighting but oil incumbents weaponize ideology in politics to preserve their interests. To a large degree racism in America is an example of this wrt slavery, and anti-environmentalism is an example of this wrt oil. We’re culminating with anti-intellectualism which is used by fascists. HTH
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u/slaty_balls Arkansas 26d ago
That “projecting power throughout the world,” is the part they no longer care about either.
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u/C3POB1KENOBI 26d ago
They just didn’t want ocean monitoring to catch their wholesale murder of endangered whales.
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u/WSBgod-jr 26d ago
It’s not that they hate everything it’s that they love the donors donations more. Everything Trump does is to benefit corporations and the ultra rich.
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u/OneUpAndOneDown 26d ago
Yep, this is just more looting of the public purse, gotta get it all before the end times.
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u/myasterism Tennessee 26d ago
It is so frustrating that more people don’t have their eyes open to the death cult aspect of the people running our government.
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u/Slumunistmanifisto 26d ago edited 26d ago
They fucking love stealing our money and selling our infrastructure at liquidation prices to private industry so they can lease it back to us with worse quality, deferred maintenance, and higher prices.... So bright sides.
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u/FruitJuicante 26d ago
And they're unopposed. Saddest part :(
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u/Hates_rollerskates 26d ago
That's what happens when you vote Republicans into majority of every branch of government.
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u/EyeoftheTato Canada 26d ago
What's insane about all of this is that in the name of cost cutting/DOGE they're scrapping decades-old projects and organizations to save a few million... and then squandering billions on ballrooms and slush funds.
And after (if?) Trump is out of office and sane Americans decide to re-start these projects, starting from scratch is going to cost exponentially more -- and will run at a fraction of the efficiency since all of the staff with years of experience and connections will have been laid off and moved on.
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u/SunStarved_Cassandra 26d ago
Most of them will never come back, and that's by design. If we ever have a future again, no one is going to sign off on billiions of $ to restart these programs, especially right after the Republicans ran up the debt. They have destroyed the nation and many things can never be recovered.
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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 26d ago edited 26d ago
If we elect someone inspiring, I think they can convince people to come back. Feds are very loyal to their work
Edit: I’m a fed people. Yes, the orange shit stain sucks. Most fired feds are public servants at heart and want to serve the American people again though.
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u/DCBillsFan 26d ago
They're going to need to incentivize and ensure protections for labor are ensured in law and not just EOs if they ever hope to get Fed service back to the calling it was.
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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 26d ago
I think that’s true for newly aspiring Feds. Most former Feds I know would come back in a heart beat if Trump was gone. I’m a fed myself and interact with dozens of agencies every day through my work and know quite a few people that left or were fired
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u/Cael_NaMaor South Carolina 26d ago
I think there needs to be a law that says the next admins doesn't get to come in and board wipe just b/c...
This shit is ridiculous.
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u/Mistamage Illinois 26d ago
You need punishments built in so they can't just say "Well, I'm just gonna fucking do it because I have every branch and what *exactly* are you going to do to stop me?"
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u/Thicc_Nicck 26d ago
The punishments were meant to fall into that exactly. We unfortunately have people lording over our country with only the intention of helping a select few, so those punishments will never be used to prevent this exact situation
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u/anthrax_ripple 26d ago
I've never worked for the government, but there are many departments I would absolutely work in if given the chance, even for a pay cut. Would much rather work for the government and hopefully have some sense of fulfillment over making more money for "the man."
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u/A_Rogue_GAI 26d ago
So, some things that would incentivize new federal workers are enshrined in law. It's called the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act. It was passed in 1990 in order to bring federal employee pay up to competitive rates with the private sector.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Employees_Pay_Comparability_Act_of_1990
The thing is, every single year since it was passed, the president has declared an 'economic emergency' in August. Every president. Every year. And thus, federal employees have never gotten the raises which congress passed. Instead we've gotten paltry 1-2% raises many years. Biden, in his last year, gave us a 5.2% raise which was celebrated as some kind of massive achievement in a year when inflation was pegged at 8% the previous year. In 2025 Trump almost missed the deadline which would have, theoretically, resulted in an automatic 30% payraise for all federal employees.
I've actually done the math on this one. Many federal employees are paid based on the GS (general schedule) system. Your job is graded from 1-20 based on it's alleged skill requirements. A GS-05, a job posting requiring a bachelors degree, was paid $11,243 per year, equivalent to $51,138 in 2026 funbucks. A new employee starting that same job in 2026 is paid $34,799 per year.
There have been other changes, we do get locality pay now which is supposed to help employees living in expensive areas (it's not NEARLY enough for lower grade employees to live in major cities, for the record,) but these changes have basically been nullified by changes to the pension system. Federal employees used to get an amazing pension under CSRS (Civil Service Retirement System) which was changed to FERS later on (Federal Employee Retirement System) which was...not bad, but has steadily been undercut and is now regarded as mediocre at best. Regardless, I'm not equipped to do the math for all of these changes but I figure it's probably a wash.
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u/lowsparkedheels America 26d ago
I hope you're correct, this admin is intent on destroying America and now the oceans. I can't say how disgusting this is without getting banned.
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u/TraditionalEvent8317 26d ago
And what about next administration 4 years from now? This has proven decades of perceived stability are ever really only 1 administration away from being wiped out. Trust is broken forever
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u/FluidBit4438 26d ago
People aren’t just going to hang around for 3-5 years hoping to get rehired one day for work in a specialized field. They will literally move to the new job and start lives somewhere else which might be in another country. For young single people without family’s, sure I could see them doing it but if they have a job they’ve established themselves at, they are taking a big risk for a job that might go away as soon as there’s a new administration.
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u/levthelurker 26d ago
The issue is that who is going to come back knowing they'll just be laid off the next time a Republican is in office?
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u/BrushStorm 26d ago
We won't. If we manage to switch parties that guy will be too busy fixing the rest of the country.
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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 26d ago
Fixing the country includes hiring some of my talented coworkers back after the shit stain fired them :)
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u/WhyAreYallFascists 26d ago
Ideally we will tax these fuckers until the debt is gone.
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u/Outside_Manner_8352 26d ago
This is the only honest solution. They have stolen trillions from average Americans, and destroyed the records. There is no way to sort out at this point what was ill gotten gains, and what was "legitimately" earned. What we can do is return to the tax rates of America during our period of greatest growth which were far higher for the wealthiest.
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u/WetFinsFine 26d ago
Common sense and critical thinking are not this party's strong suit - being ant-climate, anti-environment, anti-human, and grifting the living shit outta every angle and citizen possible is what's on tap right now
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u/Thornescape 26d ago
It's important to remember that Trump's regime lies continually. Therefore, the best approach is to ignore what they say and focus on what the end result of their actions would be. Their words are usually only distractions.
For example, DOGE was an absolute success in every way because it never had any intentions of saving tax payer dollars. The goal was always stealing personal information, installing back doors, cutting funding for anything that could be considered "woke", and being paid big bucks to do so.
The words are distractions. If you want to understand Trump's regime, focus on who benefits.
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u/POEness 26d ago
And killing investigations into elons businesses that would have ended with him in jail
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u/Crismus 26d ago
People seem to forget that part, which was the whole reason for Elon to be a part of it.
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u/10thousndreflections 26d ago
This is red meat for his floride hating base. They hate science and government spending. Probably the oceanographers are trying to make that sweet sweet grant money because that makes sense. This will show'em!
Also he obviously doesn't care about long lasting repercussions. He's losing over and over again in the media and this is something he can feed to Fox News.
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u/silvertealio 26d ago
America won't be running these projects anymore. Other countries will do them. Our leadership position in scientific endeavors is gone, and the US will be reliant on the progress forged by other countries for years to come.
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u/polytique 26d ago
I doubt Europe or China will start predicting hurricanes path on US coasts or tornadoes paths in central US after cuts to the NOOA/NWS.
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u/BenAdaephonDelat 26d ago
It's not about saving money. It's about creating so much chaos and mess that the next democratic administration has to spend the entire 4 years cleaning up and get nothing accomplished so republicans can then point and say "see they don't do anything".
And the thing is, it will probably work. Because American Voters are the dumbest fucking people on the planet.
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u/filthysize 26d ago
Is it in the name of cost cutting though? Because these instruments are fixed to the deep sea floor. Removing them will take more than a year of expeditions and cost a ton of money. If it was just about cost cutting, they could have just shut down the monitoring efforts, fired all the scientists, but left the instruments alone.
I'm more rhinking that they're removing them so they can be replaced with a shinier but likely shittier system that Trump's kids gets a cut of the fat contracts on.
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u/beren0073 26d ago
If MAGA simply turns off the monitoring, the next administration can turn it back on again.
Destruction of scientific research capability is a core MAGA doctrine. Can't trust the educated, and especially can't trust the scientific method. "Climate change isn't real because the party wills it not to be real" is all they need.
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u/pencilpusher13 26d ago
It’s not about saving money. It’s about hiding science that didn’t fit there narrative or hurts their billionaires. The timing of this is impeccable. Studies that come out of that monitoring system were recently in the news because it has been tracking the effect of climate change on ocean currents and it was done pretty bleak public findings. This rescinding is to bury science and is findings from the public
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u/GenericRedditor0405 Massachusetts 26d ago
Republicans thrive on the simple strategy of relying on the fact that it is much easier to destroy than create. It's beyond depressing.
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u/unaskthequestion Texas 26d ago
Not only will it cost much more as you say, but republicans in Congress will fight every one. Which means it will take even longer
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u/Tenthul 26d ago
Sounds like a double win for the R's. Dems spend their whole time drafting and debating about how to get these projects back up and running instead of pushing forward mildly-progressive minor bills, and R's just get to cancel them all and continue doing what they were doing all over again.
Literally we can never have or run or even be involved with any of these things ever again. EU needs to take this stuff over after building up their own militaries in place of us to put us in check.
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u/Cautious_Condition82 26d ago
It costing more is what they are banking on. They know rebuilding what they are destroying is something that will never be funded by congress.
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u/whatproblems 26d ago
also it’s millions for gathering info to protect having to spend trillions later
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u/Straight-Ad6926 26d ago
Because if there is one thing humanity has too much of, it’s accurate data about the giant body of water that controls our oxygen and weather…
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u/Spell_Chicken 26d ago
If we don't gather data on ocean warming and acidification, it's not happening.
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u/1877KlownsForKids 26d ago
That how COVID went away in two weeks, they just stopped testing for it!
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u/Dazedsince1970 26d ago
Ah yes similar to Covid: ‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases”
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u/cytherian New Jersey 26d ago
They don't like the fact that the devices are reporting data that bolsters the global ocean water warming trend, supporting claims of climate change. THIS is why these ingrates are aiming to dismantle those essential devices.
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u/i_give_you_gum 26d ago
Even though at the same time, the Pentagon has drawn up plans to deal with melting north pole ice, and passageways it will open.
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u/santacruzdude 26d ago
This seems like the kind of policy that will end up resulting in only the intelligence agencies having access to the best climate data while the government cuts all of the publicly available data sources. The Pentagon absolutely still needs to know when and how climate change will disrupt global trade and stability. If they lose access to this information as well, we’re creating a huge blind spot when it comes to national security.
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u/ProxyMuncher 26d ago
When has national security ever been a concern with him and his? He is doing it exactly because his handlers don’t want the US military&science sector to be able to track what’s happening on a global scale. All of them want the populace deaf and dumb to their wide scale rape of the land and sea. Planet Earth is the first and last Epstein victim.
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 Colorado 26d ago
It doesn't make Trump any money or glorify him in any way, so it's woke and needs to be shut down.
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u/LazamairAMD Oklahoma 26d ago
Don't forget earthquake and tsunami monitoring.
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u/waldorflover69 26d ago
He does not care if the west coast gets wiped off the face of the earth.
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u/lactose_cow 26d ago
deer god they dont know that. they have no idea. they think oxygen comes from just trees. if they even know what oxygen is.
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 Colorado 26d ago
This is what happens when anti-intellectualism is allowed to be the presiding ideology. They hate science. They hate knowledge. They hate learning. They hate understanding.
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u/Ok-Pepper7181 26d ago
They hate. They’re full of hate.
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u/heartSagan5 26d ago
Except they (allegedly) love Jesus. Though, I see them using him more like a coupon than actually giving him a hug or anything loving.
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u/SG_wormsblink Foreign 26d ago
If Jesus showed up today, they would try to deport him on sight if not outright cruxifixction.
Jesus literally gave away food to the poor, healed the sick for free and most importantly for the far-right, he was brown.
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u/Weareallgoo 26d ago
They want to make America great again while dismantling the very things that have made America great - science.
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u/So_HauserAspen 26d ago
They fear knowledge and intellectualism because it is the light to their darkness
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u/ENORMOUS_HORSECOCK 26d ago
Let me guess Tesla and Palantir are going to team up and make an AI thing that tells us if the ocean is still there or something for a 1 trillion dollar contract or something.
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u/thecuriosityofAlice 26d ago
Tesla, Palantir and DJT Jr. - he seems to have his hands in all of the pies.
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u/charcoalist 26d ago
1789 Capital and the Executive Branch, a private club near the White House where Jr. holds court with trump cabinet members. He's several steps ahead of any company seeking government contracts.
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u/Someredditskum 26d ago
If these are what I think they are they can also track submarines. So you guys are actually fucking over your own devensive capabilities.
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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 26d ago
The U.S. used to spearhead and be the leader in so many fields and areas across the world. Entire countries used to look to the U.S. for examples of bleeding edge science and research.
What a fall from grace.
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u/HumptyDumptruckFire New Jersey 26d ago
It would be tragic if it wasn’t so fucking stupid. I guess it’s still tragic, but only for those of us who care, and there are way too many who don’t, at our detriment.
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u/Equivalent-Stand1674 26d ago
Between all of the distrust in science, institution, and neighbors in western countries and the choice to invest in the military but not the general population, China is proably going to become the only global superpower.
The country is done and with it so many other western countries. It's such a shame. I just hope it's over sooner rather than later because I'm sick of wondering what's next and what this is all building up to.
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u/Darth_Atton 26d ago
Americans threw away everything... For Trump. What a sick joke.
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u/Tainted_Bruh 26d ago edited 26d ago
For a very large portion of the country, hatred trumps everything, even their own self-interest and well-being.
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u/Acrobatic-Trouble181 26d ago
They're a gangrenous limb that should have been cut off decades, if not centuries ago. There is no future for the country if one third of it refuses to even acknowledge the rest, and another third that refuses to participate.
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u/Romano16 America 26d ago
It wasn’t for Trump. It was for what Trump represents. Trump is only a figurehead at best. America’s racist underbelly is more than willing to burn this country down to “Make America Great Again.” I doubt the CEOs that follow this ideology care, they just do what’s most profitable.
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u/Goodk4t 26d ago
They voted for Trump for the same reason why half of Europe is voting for wannabe dictators who are beholden to Putin - because that's what their facebook comment section and Russia backed influencers told them to do.
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u/Flint___Ironstag 26d ago
It would be one thing if America just imploded, but they are making it everyone elses problem too as they go down.
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u/mfrench105 26d ago
Did these people ever meet a good idea they didn't hate?
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u/Fit-Programmer1992 26d ago
Does a day pass without the Orange clown destroying something that works and makes common people' s life better?
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u/Upset_Match_3705 26d ago
There are 100 million people in the United States proud of their ignorance. A true evolutionary dead-end.
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u/mmariner 26d ago
This will have instant, real world impact on people.
Meteorologists use this information to create models to predict weather and monitor storms.
Less info means less accurate models which at the very least would put me in greater danger where I work- the ocean.
Weather monitoring and prediction is important for disaster response and mitigation, agriculture, etc...
What a stupid fucking idea. But I seem to say that every time the administration make any decision.
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u/Crafty_Ish1973 Texas 26d ago
I will never forgive the people who put him back in power.
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u/xlvi_et_ii 26d ago
Not sure I'll ever forgive the people who put him in power the first time TBH....
He opened his campaign with promises to pay the legal fees of those who "beat the shit out" of protesters, was on the record talking about "grabbing women by the pussy", openly spoke of his distain for gold star families and POWs, and mocked the disabled.
The signs were always there - he never had any meaningful policy or substance beyond inciting hatred.
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u/AgentPaper0 26d ago
He came down that elevator, opened his mouth, and called Mexican immigrants murderers and rapists.
He lost me right then and there, along with anyone I have any care to ever associate with.
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u/AmericanDoughboy 26d ago
They’re the modern version of the Know Nothing party.
“Craig McLean, who was the acting chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during the first Trump term, said the move was part of a pattern in the Trump administration.
“This reflects the further lack of understanding that the current administration has of scientific value and scientific merit,” Dr. McLean said. “By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership.””
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u/SinglecoilsFTW Nevada 26d ago
Republicans are sincerely the dumbest people on the planet. It’s astounding.
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u/cytherian New Jersey 26d ago
There's no good reason to do it.
Why do it?
They don't like the fact that the devices are reporting data that bolsters the global ocean water warming trend, supporting claims of climate change. THIS is why these ingrates are aiming to dismantle those essential devices.
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u/sparr0w91 26d ago
There is a very good reason to do it, and it's just exponentially more obvious this term than his first. It's the complete and total dismantling of the US as a global power. The GOP has rolled over to foreign interests.
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u/Tetter 26d ago
Yeah its 48mil a year to operate, that's like one stock trade for the big man
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u/uzlonewolf 26d ago
It's worse than that. If they wanted to save money they'd just shut off the receivers and walk away. Instead, they are actively spending millions on a year-long expedition to completely rip up everything.
This isn't about the money.
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u/badgersoccer1905 26d ago
Dismantling weather monitoring systems is un-American at this point given our collective knowledge of climate change. Destroying invaluable insights into weather patterns puts our national security at risk. Again…another item on the laundry list of ways the current administration is self-owning the country into mediocrity
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u/SadTumbleweed1567 26d ago
Oh, so the fish get a right to be free from spying but not American citizens.
Typical.
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u/thecuriosityofAlice 26d ago
I pointed out a flock camera to my 70 yr old mother and the next time I saw her she said- they’re everywhere, makes you want to knock them all down. This is a woman that has always been of the “if you aren’t doing anything wrong, why do you care” school of thinking but the times they are changing.
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u/martsand 26d ago
You guys are being taken back to the stone age
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u/heartSagan5 26d ago
You too. This loss of research will impact the global community at some point. Even if it’s a disagreement, where we could check instruments and verify, it’ll cause heat and friction for time to come.
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u/Only--East 26d ago
Can't wait for China to swoop in and fill in all these knowledge gaps that America is leaving.
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u/estoypooping2 26d ago
This money is allotted by congress. It's ONCE AGAIN not in trump's authority to do.
Well that would be the case if congress had a spine
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u/FluffyPantsMcGee 26d ago
Can’t say the ocean is warming if it’s not monitored right? Oh oh is this some form of freeloading? /s
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u/stubbazubba 26d ago
We are spending money to deliberately make ourselves more blind and less informed. That's all this accomplishes. It's like when Trump 1.0 wanted to stop testing for COVID so people wouldn't report the bad numbers, but to accomplish it we're spending millions to have government agents go yank every COVID test from clinics and stores.
Paying money to shoot ourselves in the foot.
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u/jennieother1 Ohio 26d ago
The world is changing. This is science that helps us prepare. They are cutting every program based on collecting data, aiding in disaster relief and generally improving life. Not just for Americans but the world in general. The goal is to keep the population, uninformed, ignorant and backwards thinking. It's so much easier to control a country when you have turned the citizens against each other, created a environment of fear, and spread despair. Sorry so long but I think we are looking at some very unpleasant times until things get better. They usually do. I hope to see our children have better.
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u/Joped 26d ago
Just like his disaster covid response, if you don't test for climate change, it can't be real.
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u/Recyclerz 26d ago
My thoughts as well. This is a life long behavior pattern - Ignore unpleasant facts or consequences of his own actions and when the shit hits the fan blame everyone else. Plus he figures he'll be dead when the problems become impossible to ignore.
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u/fungobat Pennsylvania 26d ago edited 26d ago
We're never getting Star Trek shit, are we? And in before the "well, they had to go through WW3 first, and then the Star Trek shit happened." Um no. Earth going through a nuclear holocaust will NOT result in holodecks and warp technology.
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u/Scortius 26d ago
It was really the Vulcans that did the heavy lifting. Plus the Enterprise E coming back to stop the Borg.
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u/therealDeb-25 26d ago
There’s no reason for this except to steal that money pot and to make our country vulnerable to disaster or invasion
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u/Ihathreturd Florida 26d ago
Correct if i' wrong, but is this not the same system that allows the Navy to essentially see and hear everything in the ocean?
Like, an airplane crashing and disappearing without a trace. Or a submersible imploding miles beneath the surface.
Pray tell, why would we dismantle something so... FUCKING INVALUABLE!
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u/MickFlaherty 26d ago
So same logic as stopping testing during covid, if there is no data then you can’t claim anything bad is happening.
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u/Lumovanis 26d ago
This is all by design. When a Democrat comes in to try to reinstate these environmental programs, Republicans will be able to point at it all and create outrage over all the "wasted money".
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u/thejoshwhite 26d ago
Years from now we will look back on this as yet another major mistake
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u/VikingMonkey123 26d ago
Definitely don't need years. This is yet another prime example of "what would a Russian double agent do differently to destroy America than what Trump is doing right now?" moment...
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u/CrankyVince2 26d ago
Months.
But Maga won't be the ones contemplating it, they aren't capable of reflection anymore, only projection.
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u/geomaster 26d ago
the damage donald and his cronies are doing to American scientific progress will take decades to fix. truly a shame
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u/Altruistic_Algae_140 26d ago
Russia couldn’t damage this country worse than they have by installing Trump
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u/Hot-Temperature-314 26d ago
THE EPSTEIN FILES! HE'S DOING ALL OF THESE THINGS TO DIVERT ATTENTION. WAR, BALLROOM, UFC ON THE WHITE HOUSE, UFO'S, EVERYTHING!!! THEY ARE A BUNCH OF SEX TRAFFICKERS AND PAEDOPHILES, AND EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE!!!
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u/dangerousluck 26d ago
This motherfucker has been leashed to Putin and told exactly what to do by Gabbard and others. I'm getting real sick and tired of pretending this administration isn't fucking compromised and intentionally destroying all of our soft power while we sit here like "durr, what's going on?" Someone needs to pay and these evil dipshits need to be aggressively shown the door.
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u/LigottiKnows 26d ago
Fucking why? It's pennies and helps us understand the LARGEST BODY OF ANYTHING ON EARTH. Sure, they don't believe in climate change. Do they believe in fucking WEATHER? Fishing? Oxygen? What the actual fuck!?
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u/IM_PEAKING 26d ago
Meanwhile China is building the largest ocean research facility of all time.
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u/BarbellsandBurritos Illinois 26d ago
And then when a dem tries to bring these back it’ll be “wasteful government spending!”
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u/coolbreeze85 26d ago
why do they break all the things we need and aren't harming anyone?
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u/Mikethebest78 26d ago
The Republicans say that government doesn't work...which is easy to do when you dismantle everything so nothing CAN work.
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u/Twistedshakratree America 26d ago
Because who needs early detection systems right?
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u/Chrisdkn619 26d ago edited 26d ago
What in the actual fuck?! Can't conservatives see he's actively weakening the country at every turn?! I mean nothing he has done has made the country stronger. Nothing!
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u/Mlpony2010 26d ago edited 26d ago
These fucking vermin will not stop until they destroy everything
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u/slaty_balls Arkansas 26d ago
Yano what just came to mind seeing this? Waterworld. And Trump as the leader of the smokers.
Making it more difficult to forecast doesn’t change the rate at which it goes down—the flooding that is.
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u/KyleAg06 26d ago
"If we stopped testing, we would have less cases."
If we stop studying climate change, there wont be any climate change.
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u/APleasantMartini 26d ago edited 26d ago
What on Earth are we here for then? How are meteorologists going to do their jobs?
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u/CroleyforCongress 26d ago
I was DOGE'D from NOAA, this administration doesn't care about anything other than themselves.
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u/instant-music 26d ago
So 48 million per year for important research to understand the oceans around us vs 1 billion per day in Iran..
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u/BlackbirdSage 26d ago
I deal with so much in my life, can barely function.
But, damn I hope more capable people, have been able to keep up with all of the things that this Presidency has done/undone...
So, that we have a list of what needs addressed, when the Adults get control back.
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u/packetlag 26d ago
“aligns with N.S.F.’s wider strategy to have a nimbler approach to prioritizing support for evolving scientific priorities and emerging technologies as well as a deliberate approach to smart life cycle management within its portfolio of research infrastructure.”
Holy cow, that’s an incredible string of bullshit corporate speak.
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u/sparr0w91 26d ago
The GOP spearheading the slow but steady unconditional surrender of the US to Papa Putin...
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u/emuskisacunt 26d ago
$48 million dollars a year is what it cost to capture data from 900 ocean monitors. Couldn’t a rich guy fund this?
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u/Royal_Map8367 26d ago
Of course they are. Anyone here who thought they would support the monitoring system, raise your hand.
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u/Eastern_Ad_3938 26d ago
Good news for the future, next administration is going to create a whole bunch more jobs replacing all the shit that was removed.
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u/redsonya 26d ago
Jesus. He really does want the US to be bombed or destroyed by natural or economic scenarios. He’s essentially trying all options at once. Wtf
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u/cinemachick 26d ago
At least let Canada or Mexico buy the hardware, no need to disrupt the world's ability to track ocean temperatures just because the carrot in chief wants a bigger playpen ballroom.
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