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
#2The 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.
Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
#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% cut to the science foundation. Official word to begin shutting down arrived in early May.
Defunding science is embarassing and sad.
Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
#4Read the article, but I'm still not seeing why the U.S. is pulling these sensors. Anyone have any insight?
Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
#5Read the article, but I'm still not seeing why the U.S. is pulling these sensors. Anyone have any insight?
Because they're scientific instruments to collect data
Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
#6Read the article, but I'm still not seeing why the U.S. is pulling these sensors. Anyone have any insight?
It’s to avoid collecting data that would point to major climate change issues. Things like disruption of currents that circulate across oceans. It’s really a dishonest move. We already paid to have this network of sensors, and they’re supposed to run for another 20 years. Instead they will spend 2 years visiting all this infrastructure that we have in place, and pulling it out of the oceans.
Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
#7Read 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.
Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
#8Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
#9Read the article, but I'm still not seeing why the U.S. is pulling these sensors. Anyone have any insight?
do you expect there to be logic behind it?
Re: U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
#10to 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!