Further Death of Science cloaked in Autocratic Doublespeak

[SorellaLaBefana]

The Regime is now destroying an invaluable deep-sea observation system (Ocean Observatories Initiative [OOI] ) that adds “ground truth” observations that make satellite observations of even more value as well as collecting data of its own having even more broad import.

The National Science Foundation [NSF] announced this decision a few days after ALL members of the NSF board had been fired by the administration.

...Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, said on X: “Fossil fuel is heating our oceans by the zettajoule, so Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel stooges want to turn off the monitors."...

The dismantling of the OOI marks another step in the Trump administration’s rollback of science and climate initiatives. It also follows Trump’s push to expand deep-sea mining and loosen fishing regulations, a policy that has alarmed ocean scientists and climate experts....

Data from the OOI has also contributed to research on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents that studies suggest may be more vulnerable to collapse than previously thought, with potentially severe consequences for the global climate...

“In a statement to the Guardian, NSF head of media affairs Mike England said the program was not being cancelled entirely: “The NSF is not cancelling the Ocean Observatories Initiative. The decision to descope aligns with NSF’s wider strategy of a nimbler approach to prioritize support for evolving scientific priorities and emerging technologies, as well as smart lifecycle management within its research infrastructure portfolio.”

The Guardian is the source for this post.

This NSF statement is a benchmark of Autocratic, Bureaucratic Doublespeak: a long answer containing outright lies, meaningless phrases, deflection of any responsibility and vapid promises.

Although he did not coin the word "doublespeak", Orwell would be quite happy with this succinct reduction of his concepts of “Doublethink” and “Newspeak” into a cohesive, descriptive whole for that which is now so widely embraced by those institutions who lie to us on an hourly basis.

I do so try to not be a Debbie Downer. But this just really did bring me down. It is just so terribly destructive. I hope SOMEONE can put a better light on it.

Here's a link to the OOI website back in the Before Times when it was created.

[CrispyQ]

1. I read the Navy uses this data. Do they have any say? -nt

[pat_k]

2. Perhaps Navy Secretary John Phelan would have,

...although I doubt it. I think he had to go because he told trump escorting ships through the strait under conditions of the non-ceasefire "ceasefire" would be impossible.

Hung Cao? No way. He wouldn't rock any boats (terrible pun intended).

[Martin Eden]

3. Outrage overload.

Constant outrage is not healthy, but accepting this sh!t normalizes it. And we can't let that happen.