Editor,
When you’re severely ill with a fever, you might be unhappy that your thermometer tells you that your temperature is 104 deg. F. If that did happen to you, though, you certainly wouldn’t throw away your thermometer. You dearly need the thermometer to keep track of your illness.
Now, 38 years after NASA first briefed the U.S. Senate on the hazards that climate change threatens humanity with, the Trump administration is set to dismantle the “Ocean Observatories Initiative.” This is a critically important set of equipment monitoring the many different aspects of the Earth’s oceans, and keeping scientists informed of developments in climate change. Over the last 13 years OOI has collected 36 terabytes of data and has served over 189 million requests to users from more than 100 countries. OOI cost $ 368 million to build and is expected to continue to serve climate scientists for the next 25 years of its projected lifespan.
We can’t let the Trump administration simply demolish a critical scientific data resource like this. We need to stop the administration’s designs for OOI and keep it busy with its critical service to climate scientists.
John Keller
Burlingame
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Thanks for your letter, Mr. Keller, but if you and others of like mind feel the Ocean Observatories Initiative is useful as a data resource, I’d recommend you get together with 100 countries and users to separately fund the Initiative. As far as I know, there’s no law against privately funding the cause. Win-win. And folks pushing the green new scam can “show” Trump how valuable they think the OOI is. BTW, the UN-backed IPCC admitted their doomsday “climate change” predictions were a lie. Were they using data obtained from the OOI? If so, is it the data or is it the analysis?
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