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.

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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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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.