Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides.
The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans.
easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
I got to experience this today.
We burn trash in Northern Virginia, 1M tons a year at this Lorton facility. Trash does not just 'go away' - it comes here and leaves as reclaimed metal scrap, ash, and stack exhaust.
Similarly inspired, I just made ginger beer. Here's its first fermentation.
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One thing that’s striking about all of this
Is that they keep denying offshore wind permits, which are a critical solution to climate change, because they falsely claim it’s bad for whales
But then they keep doing things that actually will kill whales
