The #trumpadministration2024 plans to dismantle the $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of more than 900 deep-sea instruments that has been collecting critical climate and ocean data since 2016. Scientists use the system to monitor ocean currents, carbon absorption, marine ecosystems, coastal flooding, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a major current system whose weakening could have significant climate impacts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronparnas/p/important-update-weaponization-fund?
