Kees van der Leun
Trump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-takes-aim-at-crucial-ocean-monitoring-network/
Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

Scientific American
Jun 3 at 5:31amWeb
Show threadKees van der Leun2d ago

The station in the Atlantic’s Irminger Sea has gathered crucial data on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which some scientists suspect is weakening—if it collapses, the weather effects could be devastating.

H/t @locuta , tirelessly reporting on this wrecking ball.

Show threadLenz Grimmer2d ago
@Sustainable2050 @locuta I wonder if @rahmstorf is aware of that?
Show threadDisco30002d ago
@Sustainable2050 but if the data is not gathered, the problem will vanish, right? 🤦🏻‍♂️ the unscientific idiocracy of MAGA is mindblowing 🤯
Show threadSamy2d ago
@disco3000 @Sustainable2050
Then you can just blame it on someone or something else. 🤬
Show threadHumphrey Archer1d ago

@samy

Yes
You can blame it on solar farms and wind turbines, unless there is a way to blame trans people and immigrants

@disco3000 @Sustainable2050

Show threadJames Tweedie 2d ago
@Sustainable2050 Unfortunately Sci Am is Paywalled 😕
Show threadSchools are superspreaders2d ago

@MyricaGale Paywall-free version: https://archive.ph/2026.06.02-172257/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-takes-aim-at-crucial-ocean-monitoring-network/

You can get around most paywalls by pasting the link into https://archive.ph

Show threadJames Tweedie 1d ago
@pixplz Thanks - I hadn't known that!
Show threadCynBlogger™️ ❌👑2d ago
@Sustainable2050
What the actual fuck?
Show threadbk2d ago
@Sustainable2050
#why ( #taxwaste )
Show threadMokhtarStork2d ago
@Sustainable2050 And the whole political world including the UN will do nothing about it except to say a few penniless words
Show threadJD2d ago
@Sustainable2050 What a turd to be so wasteful. 86 47 already #congress. Fraud, waste, and abuse is typically a thing the Feds crack down hard on. It is past time to crack down on the most wasteful member of the whole Executive branch, the POTUS. #impeach #prosecute #reform
Show threadGail Parenti2d ago
@Sustainable2050 Once again I ask: why? Why? Why?
Show threadKees van der Leun2d ago
@gparenti To avoid inconvenient truths coming out, leading to calls for climate action and potentially to less demand for the fossil fuels of his friends.
Show threadKokos 💠1d ago
@Sustainable2050 @gparenti But that sounds like so much work, when just screaming whatever is convenient has worked just fine so far.
Show threadConny Nasch2d ago
@Sustainable2050 there is no depth deep enough for the demented don! there are not enough 🤬 to describe him and his sycophantic bunch of idiots.
Show threadMaddad ☑️2d ago

@Sustainable2050

Why is he so determined to take us back to the 1900's

There has got to be something more than what they are telling us.

Show threadDiane2d ago

@maddad @Sustainable2050

Why Trump wants to go back to the late 1800s early 1900s.

He really hates black people.

They're doing everything they can to recreate America's first Jim Crow era.

He's old enough to remember the Little Rock Nine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine

And I feel one reason Trump wanted to deploy the national guard in Democratic cities (especially the ones with black mayors) was because the national guard was used to force desegregation in schools.

Little Rock Nine - Wikipedia

Show threadMaddad ☑️2d ago

@alienghic @Sustainable2050

💯 agreed 👍

Show threadT&P2d ago
@Sustainable2050 Quick! Before he destroys it some country should suck up to him & buy this network & let him brag about how he sold it.
Show threadJ$2d ago
@Sustainable2050 The better to deny it with, my dear.
Show threadJesseMalone2d ago
@Sustainable2050 So they know that the only way to pretend climate change isn't real is to close your eyes and plug your ears. Willfully ignorant fools.
Show threadjaj2d ago
@Sustainable2050 The world has to realise that the US is out of the game and we need to replace everything the US provided step by step. Empires come and go #uspol
Show threadMcQuiniac2d ago
@Sustainable2050 more and more it is clear that trump is a #reptilian
Show threadKlaus Vink Slott2d ago
@Sustainable2050
Quick, tell Trump that they are used to monitor Chinese submarines.
Show threadReiner Knudsen2d ago
@Sustainable2050 Isn‘t that a wake-up call for the rest of the world to get up and rebuild the system ourselves (and than funnel fake data to the US)? Why do we complain rather than act?
Show threadquixote1d ago
@Sustainable2050 No awfulness is too stupid or too petty for these criminals.
Show threadJouke Viersen1d ago
@Sustainable2050 time for an #europe initiative to takeover this activity.
Show thread⠠⠵ avuko1d ago

@Sustainable2050 those ships could also… wait for it:

NOT GO.

Stop complying. Start resisting.

Make up excuses, the dog ate your map, make it clearly bullshit, and just fucking sabotage this fascist regime.

Have you no spine?

Show threadHumphrey Archer1d ago

@Sustainable2050

Ah. The time-honoured approach to hazards and risks of simply ignoring them