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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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

Hey! I can see the ocean from my house!.... It's coming this way!

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think that if Trump were personally responsible for dooming humanity, he'd see that as a win.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

The best dooming! Doomed like we have never seen before.

[–] therewolftherecastle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure we're all dead and this is Hell.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 2 points 4 hours ago

Damnit. Does that mean JJ Abrams is Jesus?

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 34 points 1 day ago

I think thats the plan.

If no one monitors climate then is it really changing?

[–] 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 8 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 23 hours 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 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 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 18 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.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

He knows.

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then dont follow a fucking fascist shithole of idiocy. Rely on almost anyone else, and dont go back.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

It's less "everyone doe what we say" and more "everyone uses the data from this thing"

Hard to "go your own way" if you don't have your own monitoring system.

[–] Imperious_melange@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Cool, also the Atlantic thermohaline belt has been weakening and is projected to fully collapse in as little as four years in the known worst case. Generally though there's not enough data or funding. Link.

At minimum this would be really bad and worse case this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back and tosses us fully into a biosphere collapse aka the apocalypse.

Good thing we're slowing efforts to deal with climate change, and defending science into how absolutely fucked we are.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

No big deal, the huge momentum of that massive volume of water means it will take over a century to actually stop moving, after it has collapsed. It will not affect anyone alive today /s

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Hey, don't give him additional incentives.