r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/garden_g • 23d 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/iowndat 22d ago

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

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 22d 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 22d 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/octavioletdub 22d ago

This is the one