Trump Is Scrapping 900 Deep-Sea Sensors Used to Track El Niño
The National Science Foundation is dismantling a network of over 900 deep-sea sensors crucial for tracking ocean conditions, including El Niño. This decision follows repeated attempts by the Trump administration to cut funding for the Ocean Observatories Initiative. The loss of this data collection system is seen as detrimental to climate research and forecasting.
- ▪The dismantling of the sensor network will take until 2027 to complete.
- ▪The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting real-time ocean data since 2015.
- ▪The annual operating cost of the initiative is only about 0.003% of the federal government's discretionary spending.
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The National Science Foundation will begin dismantling a sprawling network of over 900 deep-sea sensors stationed in Pacific waters off the coasts of Oregon, Washington state, and Alaska, as well as Atlantic sites off North Carolina and the Irminger Sea near Iceland.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000767096","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"earther","SECTION":"earth-science","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"earth-science","TAGS":"climate-science,global-warming,oceanography,trump-administration","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Arguably, the worst part: Subsurface temperature readings from this…
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