A $368 million network. More than 900 instruments. Five arrays strung across the Pacific and the Atlantic, listening to the deep ocean. That's what they tried to pull out of the water.
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What the machines watch: ocean acidification, carbon sequestration, marine heatwaves, coastal flooding — and the AMOC, the Atlantic current that keeps the whole climate honest. Scientists keep warning it's creeping toward irreversible collapse. The kind that scorches the equator and freezes the poles.
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Then the Senate did the thing it rarely manages anymore. It acted. Two pages, one Democrat, one Republican. The NSF has since said it'll halt removals and redeploy the array it already pulled.
The sea was here before the empire and will outlast its budget cuts. The only question is who's left listening when it speaks.
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