Ocean Monitoring Cut Could Leave Forecasts Flying Blind
TL;DR
Scientists warn that the US plan to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative would degrade ocean heat-content data and seriously undermine weather forecasts and El Niño predictions, with forecasts becoming less reliable and a projected 163% increase in error for annual ocean-heating rates; the move would hit GOOS data worldwide, raising economic costs, while the NSF says the program is being descaled rather than canceled, and Europe is bolstering its own OceanEye monitoring.
- Scientists warn Trump plan to axe US ocean monitoring system will leave world ‘flying blind’ The Guardian
- U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse Yale E360
- The oceans are in deep trouble. The Trump administration is ditching a vital deep-sea monitoring system CNN
- Why the National Science Foundation is ripping monitoring instruments out of the ocean Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Trump war on science hits WA shores The Seattle Times
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