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I worked at MLO station off and on starting in 1978, through 2010. Measurements started here in 1957, and MLO CO2 record is the baseline. The calibration series for total ozone (ozone layer thickness) by ground based UV measurements is part of the history of this observatory. Words fail me.

😢😢😢😢😢

I'm confused about who NOAA is leasing this facility from. Aren't these facilities located on federal land?

GOP MAGA plan I guess to live in denial and ignorance by simply never talking about or acknowledging its existence, magically like Trump said it would go away like Covid. Oh that’s right, over a million people died after 45 said that , and we still have the virus mutations around. Idiotic logic 47!

Farewell early warning Keeling Curve, which is currently at 428 ppm. keelingcurve.ucsd.edu bsky.app/profile/bysc...

This is the same sort of anti-logical thinking that was backing the idea that tracking COVID positive tests was leading to more COVID. The idea that if you ignore or don't collect data you don't like it doesn't count & bad things don't happen.

Jesus

Yet more stupidity to please the donors.....

There HAS to be a way to keep this observatory going—even if it is through international donors. The Keeling Curve is essential data. What can we do?

This must not happen.

can hear @climatecasino.net 's head exploding from here

There should be. But I fear there is none (and it would be too late anyway). It happens all the time (including to myself). Usually due to a lack of competence and appreciation on the side of the people who stop the funding. But this is probably the first time where it is due to pure malignity.

Does that facility also monitor for potential volcanic eruptions? Mauna Loa is still a very much active volcano.

DON'T LOOK UP!

Can we get the state of Hawaii to take over this function? Surely, it can’t be very expensive to do?

Is this all because Trump was embarrassed when he got caught using a sharpie on a hurricane path map after he fucked up and told Alabama they needed to evacuate?

ah, sadly i'm in the "other part of the EU that drifted into the atlantic". apparently trying to reclaim its rightful place as a great seafaring nation.

A reverse Brain Drain. Due to Trump’s Dunning-Krueger blinkers, he is unable to detect any intelligence above his own. He thinks he’s at the very top of the IQ scale.

If someone were to organise crowd funding to keep the lab running, I’d happily contribute just sayin

But the facility whose lease is being terminated is where eight staff members are based to maintain the Mauna Loa Observatory and send samples on to the Boulder lab.

Disgusting

2015 US leaders… make America great again ?

Do people realise this:

@schatz.bsky.social see! They are going to do a shutdown whether there is a budget showdown or not! Removing your own leverage is political suicide and also giving up on your constituents

Crazy

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Trump: We just let Putin decide the entire US politics. Then we don't need to fight him anymore.