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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[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 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...