Only days ago, the Trump administration began dismantling a federal program to monitor the oceans, for no apparent reason. When Congress saw what was happening, some Republicans were aghast. The program to remove the monitors has been canceled, at least temporarily.
Just goes to show you what happens when Republican members of Congress grow a spine.
Maxine Joselow of The New York Times reported:
The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill.
The National Science Foundation had said in May that it would begin removing hundreds of underwater instruments this month that collect data on coastal flooding, marine heat waves and other climate and weather events.
But the agency announced on Thursday that it will pause efforts to take apart the system, known as the Ocean Observatories Initiative, while convening an expert panel to determine its future.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Good news indeed!
Bobbi Eisenberg
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I had a friend who manufactured those devices for a living. The thing he built traveled around the ocean reading the temperature at -9 meters and beaming the info to a satellite. This data could then be processed by weather forecasters who would do things like help route airlines and ships.
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There is just no underestimating or understanding stupudity.
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