The Trump administration’s plan to dismantle an ocean observation system vital to understanding the climate crisis and marine ecosystems would “severely degrade” the accuracy of weather predictions and El Niño forecasts, with economic consequences for the US, European and American scientists have warned.

Decommissioning the US system, which plays a major part in a global ocean observation network, would lead to a massive increase in error in the annual estimates of ocean heating rates, according to research published last month.

As a result, the forecasts and early warning systems for storms, tropical cyclones and El Niño would degrade, “sometimes dangerously so”, according to Sabrina Speich, an expert in global ocean monitoring at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris and chair of the ocean expert panel of the Global Climate Observing System.

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[–] amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I take solace from the fact that the American people have weighed all the pros and cons and made the most sensible choice. God only knows what would have happened if anyone else would have won!

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago

I still, regularly hear people lamenting; "yeah.... Things are bad, but what was I gonna do, vote for Kamala? "

So, this is it. Donnie is literally the best America can do... And honestly, he's kind of the perfect embodiment to represent everything America represents and stands for, a fat, ugly, boorish, racist, paedophile rapist. angry, aggressively ignorant and terrified of anything they dont understand or that doesn't look like them. This is your top man, your perfect avatar of americana, he is the physical manifestation of 250 years of American history.

I no longer feel any empathy towards Americans who complain that he doesn't represent them, maybe look in a fucking mirror...

[+] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The American people have no power or say in this whatsoever. Their choice is between two fascist candidates provided for them by the Epstein Class.

Our only power is local.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If only there was an amendment meant to prevented tyranny... Oh well

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

If only wars were won with guns these days and not drones. Oh but I guess that would require admitting reality, not politics — I see.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

There is definitely a difference between the one that wants to see a neoliberal state continue and the one that wants to dismantle the system for a oligarch-run autocracy.

When it comes to the neoliberals, at least their opinions can evolve under pressure.

ETA: I came across this take from Jamelle Bouie, It's Not Both Sides. It Never Was.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, and that difference is presentation.

One side buries the knife in your back. The other makes excuses as to why they won't (not can't) give you treatment, and those excuses increasingly make no sense when Donald demonstrates over and over again that one doesn't need anything but sheer will to get shit done.

The two ruling parties are just two gears in the same fascist machine.