A Call to Arms

The system of ocean current that moves heat in the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate. Today’s monitoring of it may be discontinued.

Systematic monitoring of the Amoc began only two decades ago when a handful of visionary researchers in different countries patched together individual nationally funded research projects within the competitive science domain.

Yet, these measurements are now a benchmark for climate models and have critically improved our understanding of the Amoc. The extreme vulnerability of funding for Amoc observing has been confirmed by a recent assessment that showed how funding issues have already reduced Amoc observing capabilities.

Several Amoc monitoring initiatives are at a risk of being defunded and could be discontinued at any moment. While we can’t go back in time to do more observations, we can improve our observation strategy for the future.

Instead, the Trump administration has proposed budget cuts to Nasa, Noaa and NSF – agencies that together provide about 50% of the total Amoc monitoring budget. Last week the US announced the descoping of the Ocean Observing Initiative which was part of a programme observing the Amoc.

The recently launched European OceanEye initiative has allocated €50m for ocean observations and is a great incentive to continue Amoc observations. However, before OceanEye is up and running, the research vessels that service the present-day observing systems will already have to be financed, planned and packed.

The cost of all Amoc monitoring adds up to about €25m a year. Meaning that for five cents per person per year, the EU can maintain one of the world’s most important climate monitoring systems that affects our everyday lives and improves resilience to the climate crisis.

That may sound like I’m being sarcastic but no

being a billionaire can only be achieved by being someone who steps on the backs of the working class and exploiting people, if you decided not to be a terrible person it would take you multiple life times to be able to make a billion dollars.

The investigations that you most wanna see will happen in Judiciary, which will be chaired by Jamie Raskin and Oversight, which will be chaired by Robert Garcia. Their words on what investigations will take place hold more weight than Jeffries'.

Garcia will be starting with Epstein.

The Nova Scotia government says it’s on track to comply with a human rights ruling that requires the province to move people with disabilities out of institutions and into their own homes by 2028. Meanwhile, the group behind the legal case sparking the change says while the province has made progress, it is still behind schedule. Opportunities and Social Development Minister Susan Corkum-Greek told reporters in Halifax on Wednesday that the government is taking the time to consult with residents to ensure they have a smooth transition after leaving an institution. She said she’s confident the department can hit the 2028 target.

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Excerpt from this story from Earther/Gizmodo:

Attention: DOGE’d and RIF’ed U.S. government meteorologists and climate scientists. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is looking to hire a new executive director focused on “catastrophe modeling.” Ideally, someone who could be a “subject matter expert in natural catastrophe and climate,” upping their portfolio’s “resilience to physical climate risks.”

And they’re not alone. Some hedge funds are offering as much as $1 million per year for the right extreme weather forecaster. As one recruiter who specializes in placing experts in this niche world of “insurance-linked securities” told Bloomberg News, anthropogenic climate change’s most canny and enterprising Cassandras have been netting “exponentially higher” pay bumps compared to their past salaries over the last two years.

Not unlike the mortgage-backed securities of the 2008 financial crisis, insurance-linked securities (ILS) reimagine an insurance company’s outstanding policy risks and potential rewards as assets that it can market to outside investors, like hedge funds. Imagine an insurance company is worried that potential floods might force it to lose millions fulfilling homeowners’ claims during an impending hurricane. It could issue a so-called catastrophe bond whose purchasers effectively backstop those insurance payments—unless, of course, those genius investors have better climate scientists on staff than the insurance company does.

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