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https://maritime-executive.com/article/trump-administration-invests-in-removing-ocean-research-buoysMoving the objectives of Project 2025 one step closer to completion, the National Science Foundation is removing 900 ocean data collecting buoys that cost more than $370 million to install. If left in place, the buoys would have continued to provide climate-related data to scientific researchers for another 15 years - an outcome that NSF's plan will prevent, saving taxpayers nearly $50 million per year. It will also unwind the decades of effort by American oceanographers, technicians and professional mariners who have installed and maintained the network. The Coastal Endurance Array off the Pacific Northwest is the first to go, and removal operations at that site are already in process, according to the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).
Instead of abandoning the buoys and subsea landers in place, NSF will allocate ship-days to physically remove OOI equipment from far-flung locations around the globe, from the North Pacific to Greenland to the Southern Ocean, the New York Times reports.
"Over more than a decade, OOI has delivered the worlds most advanced continuously operating ocean observing systems, supporting science, engineering, education, and workforce development across the ocean sciences community. We are profoundly grateful for the extraordinary efforts of the scientists, engineers, operators, educators, students, and partners who made this facility possible and who continue to advance its legacy through the use of its data," said Jim Edson, the head scientist for the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative in a statement.
The initiative to cease collection of climate-related ocean data aligns with the priorities of Project 2025's "Mandate for Leadership," a transition guide for the current administration. In 2024, the project's authors advised that the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) - a key customer of OOI ocean data, an adjacent enterprise through NOAA's U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), and a funder of OOI host institution Woods Hole (WHOI) - was in the authors' view "the source of much of NOAAs climate alarmism," and "the preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded."
This vision was partially realized over the course of the administration's first year. NOAA shed about 20 percent of its workforce through layoffs in the first 12 months, with cuts concentrated at OAR. The administration's first budget, written by Project 2025 co-author and current White House Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, would have seen OAR "eliminated as a line office," ended OAR's 16 scientific cooperation agreements with 80 different research universities, and folded the rest of its work into other departments. Congress declined to enact this proposal and funded OAR at $630 million for FY2026.
dutch777
(5,109 posts)2naSalit
(104,053 posts)So that they can have it all.
cbabe
(6,885 posts)2naSalit
(104,053 posts)Never troubles their petrified (or putrified?) brains.
Bmoboy
(670 posts)love_katz
(3,291 posts)Republicans = greedy, lying, raping pedophiles, who see anyone who isn't in the .001 percent obscene wealth bracket as a useless eater.
They want us all to die, so they can snatch up whatever wealth or property we might have.
They're nothing more than cruel, greedy, and evil, and very stupid as well. They think their bunkers will protect t h em from climate change and angry mobs of starving people who have nothing left to lose.
And, not to put too fine of a point on it, their hateful religious beliefs tells them that their petty, angry, jealous and spiteful Gawd loves them and only them, so of course, they won't suffer any consequences for their actions. Exhibit A: the Albanian island, where the Thief In Chief's family wants to build a luxury resort (?) on an island that has a bunch of nuclear bunkers already part of the structure. How convenient for them. They destroy our government and society, loot everything they can get their hands on, then move to a private island complete with nuclear bunkers.
Mad_Machine76
(25,041 posts)Argentina
Autumn
(49,031 posts)has been in place over a decade and was good for another 25 years.
Fix The Stupid
(1,002 posts)Ready for the truth bomb? Can our fragile ears handle this?
Here it is...hope you're sitting down...
There isn't enough resources currently on this planet to sustain the human population level we are at now, let alone where we will be in 25-50 years.
That's it. That's everything.
"They" did the math. And it scared the hell out of 'them'.
I just chuckle when I read things like "Elon Musk could end world hunger with his billions!!! - why hasn't he done this yet!!!???"
Well...poor people cannot eat money. Can't build houses out of money. He is just going to 'buy' $Billions$ of $ worth of food and hand it out? Where is this food coming from? Where are the building materials going to come from? There are finite resources available on this planet. Are we going to plunge the 1st world countries into 3rd world territory to 'even' things out? Of course not...They know this, they did the calculations, and they know 'we' are screwed.
EVERYTHING you see or hear today is to prepare us for that 'tomorrow' and ensure 'their' way of life can continue. This means that a certain % of the global population MUST do without and must suffer.
There is simply no other conclusion.
EarthFirst
(4,236 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,703 posts)Republican anthem
enough
(13,783 posts)SamuelTheThird
(1,330 posts)sociopathy/psychopathy
religion (if climate change is real, it can subvert theological fantasies)
making money in the short term above all