U.S. yanks 900 ocean sensors right as the next El Nino forms (timescolonist.com)
The trigger is money: the Trump administration's 2026 budget proposed a 55% cut to the National Science Foundation, and the order to start shutting the network down arrived in early May.
Most of the system is slated to be dismantled by 2027, gutting a long-running record of the Pacific just as El Nino conditions return.
The quiet flip from the thread: pulling the hardware costs more than leaving it in place and unmaintained, which makes the move read as a choice, not a saving.
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