This dismantling of infrastructures that has taken so long to build & maintain -at a critical time- is super-tragic, especially as other institutions are also cutting back for lack of finances. Not due to reduced funding but less funds available in an era of increasing costs (inflation #polycrises).
Dr. Melanie Bergmann
We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions.
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The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
