Following push-back from the climate community and Congress, the Trump has backpedaled on its plan to remove Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) sensors.
This would have left the United States blind to climate change events.
Thankfully, Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO).
The Donald Trump administration has reversed its decision to dismantle a $368m deep-sea observation system following an outcry from lawmakers and ocean experts.
On Thursday, the National Science Foundation announced that it would halt plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative, stating: “effective immediately, [it] will not proceed with further removal or descoping of equipment from the remaining arrays and will continue operations including planned maintenance”.
The agency added that it “appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders that have informed us they rely on data” from the OOI.
The NSF also said it would “issue a Dear Colleague Letter to collect input from stakeholders and convene an expert panel to assess observational needs, evaluate available data sources, consider responses … and help the agency identify a sustainable path for NSF’s ocean observing systems”.
The OOI comprises more than 900 instruments that collect data on ocean health, including current patterns, climate variability and marine biodiversity. Its observation arrays are located off the coasts of North Carolina, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, as well as in the Irminger Sea, a marginal sea between Greenland and Iceland.
They hoped to pass this through with no one noticing, because their response to anthropogenic climate change is to cover it up.
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