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U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears

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Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears

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Post by arch_deluxe »

wxw wrote: post #3

> Starting this week, the Ocean Observatories Initiative will lose a network of more than 900 ocean sensors from waters off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. > By 2027, the National Science Foundation will have dismantled most of the system, which had been slated to run another 15 to 20 years. > Scientists had seen warning signs as the Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget included a 55%…

Don’t forget wantonly destructive.

Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears

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Post by mort96 »

bbbrad wrote: post #4

Read the article, but I'm still not seeing why the U.S. is pulling these sensors. Anyone have any insight?

It's in the republican party's interest to ensure there's as little data as possible showing any form of climate anomalies. Their party platform is that climate change is not real, and Trump is personally a big fan of coal power.

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Post by NewJazz »

cactacea wrote: post #7
bbbrad wrote: post #4

Read the article, but I'm still not seeing why the U.S. is pulling these sensors. Anyone have any insight?

Science is evil and must be destroyed at all costs.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-exec...

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Post by ericmay »

arjie wrote: post #2

The scales of money at play always seem so strange. Oh a few hundred million for ocean sensors, or about what a few OpenAI / Cursor employees or a few hundred FAANG employees could personally fund if they desired to do so.

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Post by clintonb »

bbbrad wrote: post #4

Read the article, but I'm still not seeing why the U.S. is pulling these sensors. Anyone have any insight?

The current administration doesn’t care about climate change, or believes it’s a hoax. Given this, they see no need to fund research and data gathering that tells them otherwise.

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Post by behringer »

fusslo wrote: post #10

to be honest I always assumed scientific sensors like those also had military applications either directly or indirectly (installing listening devices at the same time as installing the scientific equipment). That'd be partly why we fund and keep them around. But I guess not!

They do, but trump doesn't really care about military readiness.

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Post by exe34 »

bbbrad wrote: post #4

Read the article, but I'm still not seeing why the U.S. is pulling these sensors. Anyone have any insight?

Any data that can even remotely be tied to the climate could be used against the Turd Reich. The Fuhrer cannot allow it.
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