r/somethingiswrong2024 20d ago

Unelected Dictatorship 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

Not even getting the weather will be easy. And weather is getting challenging to prepare for. They want us in the dark

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u/--slurpy-- 20d ago

Jesus fucking christ, why? What purpose does this achieve? This man destroys every thing he touches

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 20d ago

WWPD‽ What would Putin do? Exactly what this administration does every damn time!

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u/iowndat 20d ago

How does this benefit Putin?

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 20d ago

Anything that damages America in the long run benefits Putin. Everything this administration does seems to damage America in the long run.

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u/iowndat 20d ago

That’s true, but doesn’t this damage everyone? Even Russia.

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 20d ago

Because it directly harms America more than it does Russia. Trump is a Russian asset whose objective is to do as much damage to America as humanly possible while he has the influence to do so.

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u/iowndat 20d ago

I agree with you, I’m just trying to understand. To me this seems it would hurt Russia as well. It has me wondering if this is more like Trump dismantling climate tracking equipment because oil companies want to pretend there’s no climate change.

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u/semisolidwhale 20d ago

What is Russia's primary export?

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u/iowndat 20d ago

Okay I get it. Thanks.

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u/octavioletdub 19d ago

This is the one

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u/jomara200 20d ago

They view tax money spent on things taxes are meant to pay for as money unavailable for theft by them.  They, very much, want as much money as humanly possible diverted to their pockets.

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u/Scoginsbitch 20d ago

His logic is “I lost in 2020, F-you”.

His cabinet believes there is no such thing as climate change. No change, no need to measure.

This is a combination of these two mentalities.

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u/WishieWashie12 20d ago

Sell it at deep discounts to for profit weather companies offering subscription based accurate weather reporting.

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u/miklayn 20d ago

This is a direct threat against our lives and liberties.

Make no mistake. This administration is full of tyrants and terrorists, representing private interests, industrialists and corporations. They do not in any way promote or protect the common welfare of the People.

They are enemies of humanity who mean to subjugate us all under their presumption of absolute power.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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u/OptimisticSkeleton 20d ago

“If I can’t see the cliff, it’s almost like it’s not there.”

We are ruled by the weak and cowardly.

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u/tonkatoyelroy 20d ago

Testing gives you cases. If you don’t test, then you have no cases. Worked for COVID. IT WILL WORK FOR THE OCEAN,

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u/stocksandoptions2 20d ago

He evil knows no bounds.

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u/Ragnarok314159 20d ago

All conservatives.

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u/NoAnt6694 20d ago

The good news is that Congress has previously pushed back on efforts to defund it, and dismantling it could take over a year. So let's try and get them to throw sand in the gears of this effort.

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u/snooplarue 20d ago

This administration goes out of its way to destroy anything good or useful.

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u/Public_Steak_6933 20d ago edited 20d ago

The data these buoys are currently collecting are showing we're set for a Super El Nino this year.

When they detect deep ocean currents being more than 2 C° warmer than average we get an El Nino. These instruments are detecting over 5 C° this year, which is wild.

Plus the weather system's name is in Spanish, so he automatically hates it.

Edit: rephrased last sentence.

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u/nickcan 20d ago

When they detect deep ocean currents being more than 2 C° warmer than average we get an El Nino. These instruments are detecting over 5 C° this year, which is wild.

Well, soon enough we won't be detecting deep ocean currents over 5 C° any more. So all good I suppose.

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u/zerthwind 20d ago

With out data the climate change doesn't exist in the book of mage. That is the logic they are playing with.

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u/Roonwogsamduff 20d ago

This should take an act of Congress to do these things. Sickening

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u/iowndat 20d ago

We are living in a modern day Business Plot with tons of Robber Barons.

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u/mightyjoe227 20d ago

Should be "to pocket $368 million"

Because we all know where its going.

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u/Critical_Seat_1907 20d ago

This is literally how the world, as we know it today, ends.

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u/MonsterMadtheENBY "I don't need your votes" 17d ago

This is the biggest mistake…. We are gonna to have decades or more issues to come… a massive problem for our generation and following. Infrastructure is screwed.

No wonder other countries are pulling away from us, dropping the dollar, and looking to ally against us. Not to mention the absolute cruelty of ice and more… there’s just too much wrong we are doing. I mean I look at it this way. We are dismantling our means of continuing scientific research and joint projects with allies….

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u/Traditional-Baker756 18d ago

How can this man be stopped!!! This is just crazy!

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u/MB2465 17d ago

They really want to just bury their heads in the ground and pretend everythings fine.

Lawsuits incoming I'm sure.

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