Scientific production and advancement is one of the few things that kept us afloat economically and of which we could be proud of. Now krasnov has decided to destroy even that turning us into a banana republic living off the slowly decaying carcass of what we once were.
There is a lot of dystopian literature about how after some great calamity that throws everything out of whack, society revolts against the idea of scientific investigation and goes with some sort of phase where everything is revealed to a given priesthood. It's sad that we are in the initial stages of that. Soon people will start having to scavenge items that are no longer produced because their means of continued production will slowly deteriorate. Think about Cuba keeping its 1955 Chevies on the road. That's what krasnov is aiming for whether he admits it or not.
Incredible scientific instruments, created at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, removed prematurely (I read the life expectancy was 25 years) at cost to remove of ?, and thrown in the dumpster! Where the hell is DOGE when we need to really shut down waste and fraud!
This is almost as stupid as paying companies to remove offshore wind projects already in place. Oh wait... Pulling the monitoring equipment will cost more than just working with it in the short term. This is just Trump and his P2025 minions pissing on anything they can while they can.
Maybe this helps the voters recognize that they depend on the federal government for many things that help protect them. Maybe reality will seep into their brains better because they don’t want to hear from intellectuals.
“Buxton, North Carolina—IF YOU’VE WATCHED ANY hurricane coverage on TV in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a house here fall into the ocean.”
The good news is that Trump has found a novel way to deal with Hurricanes: he’ll just NUKE them.🤪
That said, from what I understand the system isn’t being dismantled as much as it is being repurposed for commercial reasons—finding oil and other mineral deposits under the seas.
They’re handing mining and oil exploration services a major gift at the expense of not only weather, but cargo ships traversing the oceans. And we get to pay for it—-more welfare for the least worthy!
Trump is doing to the world what he’s doing to America—destroying everything he touches just to squeeze out every ounce of profit he can.
A lifelong Buxton resident, Brett Barley, who makes some of his living by being an expert on surfing in the area has plaintively posted on social media that despite the appalling destruction, there's plenty to do in the Buxton area, including clean beaches. I suspect that summer tourism must be down.
It's all part of the ongoing Republican project to justify more tax breaks for the wealthy by cutting expenditures regardless of whether the expenditure today prevents much higher expenditures tomorrow.
A good example is the CDC medical team stationed in China. Trump reduced the size of the team from 8 to 3 in 2019, including the guy who was working with the Chinese to help them prepare to respond to a pandemic. It was just wasted money until it wasn't. Then it was too late, of course.
The only saving grace for the cuts to ocean monitoring described in the post is that it's going to affect red states more than me. Perhaps people there will start to understand the benefits of checking a candidate's positions beyond whether or not the candidate will own the libs.
Wait for the first hurricane to demolish Mar-a-Lago or Ivanka's palace down the street from it, or any other R pols. What the hell do Rs think? If you don't know about them, they won't exist? Rs are the major beneficiaries of that research.
This recently retired meteorologist thanks you for reporting on this, Catherine. It is surely one of the most bone-headed "own goals" committed by the present administration, and has Russell Voughts fingerprints all over it.
Small, but substantive edits early in the article. It's not Trump's, nor the administration's monitoring system. It is ours
And it's not being defunded to languish on the ocean floor and be reactivated. It is being decommissioned. You get to that, but people who stop reading need it spelled out right at the top.
Every day, the nihilism of this administration hits a new bottom. In this case, it’s not just that they are ignoring data, but are destroying the mechanism used to collect it. I suppose it can be replaced in a future administration, but is this one more think that’s going to pendulum between parties as much many other policies do?
When I first heard of this, I had just watched “Pressure,” and couldn’t help but think how much Eisenhower and other D-Day planners would have appreciated having a system like this.
Also incredibly dismaying that the President can do this on his own (or at least with no meaningful pushback from Congress).
Mar a lago's fate
Scientific production and advancement is one of the few things that kept us afloat economically and of which we could be proud of. Now krasnov has decided to destroy even that turning us into a banana republic living off the slowly decaying carcass of what we once were.
There is a lot of dystopian literature about how after some great calamity that throws everything out of whack, society revolts against the idea of scientific investigation and goes with some sort of phase where everything is revealed to a given priesthood. It's sad that we are in the initial stages of that. Soon people will start having to scavenge items that are no longer produced because their means of continued production will slowly deteriorate. Think about Cuba keeping its 1955 Chevies on the road. That's what krasnov is aiming for whether he admits it or not.
Incredible scientific instruments, created at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, removed prematurely (I read the life expectancy was 25 years) at cost to remove of ?, and thrown in the dumpster! Where the hell is DOGE when we need to really shut down waste and fraud!
2025ers marching along.
A good summary, and well supported by commentary from the scientific community.
This is almost as stupid as paying companies to remove offshore wind projects already in place. Oh wait... Pulling the monitoring equipment will cost more than just working with it in the short term. This is just Trump and his P2025 minions pissing on anything they can while they can.
Maybe this helps the voters recognize that they depend on the federal government for many things that help protect them. Maybe reality will seep into their brains better because they don’t want to hear from intellectuals.
“Buxton, North Carolina—IF YOU’VE WATCHED ANY hurricane coverage on TV in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a house here fall into the ocean.”
The good news is that Trump has found a novel way to deal with Hurricanes: he’ll just NUKE them.🤪
That said, from what I understand the system isn’t being dismantled as much as it is being repurposed for commercial reasons—finding oil and other mineral deposits under the seas.
They’re handing mining and oil exploration services a major gift at the expense of not only weather, but cargo ships traversing the oceans. And we get to pay for it—-more welfare for the least worthy!
Trump is doing to the world what he’s doing to America—destroying everything he touches just to squeeze out every ounce of profit he can.
A lifelong Buxton resident, Brett Barley, who makes some of his living by being an expert on surfing in the area has plaintively posted on social media that despite the appalling destruction, there's plenty to do in the Buxton area, including clean beaches. I suspect that summer tourism must be down.
Project 2025 was designed by the enemies of America.
It's all part of the ongoing Republican project to justify more tax breaks for the wealthy by cutting expenditures regardless of whether the expenditure today prevents much higher expenditures tomorrow.
A good example is the CDC medical team stationed in China. Trump reduced the size of the team from 8 to 3 in 2019, including the guy who was working with the Chinese to help them prepare to respond to a pandemic. It was just wasted money until it wasn't. Then it was too late, of course.
The only saving grace for the cuts to ocean monitoring described in the post is that it's going to affect red states more than me. Perhaps people there will start to understand the benefits of checking a candidate's positions beyond whether or not the candidate will own the libs.
Wait for the first hurricane to demolish Mar-a-Lago or Ivanka's palace down the street from it, or any other R pols. What the hell do Rs think? If you don't know about them, they won't exist? Rs are the major beneficiaries of that research.
Mar-a-Lago is on a sturdy site, though most of Palm Beach has long suffered from retreating beaches.
This recently retired meteorologist thanks you for reporting on this, Catherine. It is surely one of the most bone-headed "own goals" committed by the present administration, and has Russell Voughts fingerprints all over it.
Small, but substantive edits early in the article. It's not Trump's, nor the administration's monitoring system. It is ours
And it's not being defunded to languish on the ocean floor and be reactivated. It is being decommissioned. You get to that, but people who stop reading need it spelled out right at the top.
Smells like Russell Vought to me.
Every day, the nihilism of this administration hits a new bottom. In this case, it’s not just that they are ignoring data, but are destroying the mechanism used to collect it. I suppose it can be replaced in a future administration, but is this one more think that’s going to pendulum between parties as much many other policies do?
When I first heard of this, I had just watched “Pressure,” and couldn’t help but think how much Eisenhower and other D-Day planners would have appreciated having a system like this.
Also incredibly dismaying that the President can do this on his own (or at least with no meaningful pushback from Congress).
If only tRump supported science. But no. He only supports mayhem.
And tRump cut FEMA too, so good luck getting help AFTER the mayhem of a disaster.