Climate change

The Guardian - The Trump administration has plans to shutter the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a massive US-funded network of seafloor sensors and underwater gliders. Why worry? Because a recent study found that losing this specific network would do more damage to global climate tracking than randomly losing 80% of all other ocean data combined. It plugs gaps no other nation fills, and losing it will severely degrade the data that underpins the world’s weather predictions, El Niño forecasting, and fisheries management.