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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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 2 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 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 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.