Damped Down

Despite the planned dismantlement of the Ocean Observatories Initiative being an act of supreme stupidity that would cost the taxpayer millions, the Trumpster and his head-tribble have rowed back on the rolling back. Presumably someone managed to inform the head-tribble that the OOI monitors ocean waters off both Alaska and Greenland, amassing potentially vital intelligence for the forthcoming crusades against the existential threats of North Korea and Denmark. Nevertheless, as a merely scientific deep-sea monitoring system the OOI is inevitably easy prey for the Heathen Chinee hoax that is climate change; thus the postponement of its demise is conditional upon stakeholders identifying ways to make it sustainable at a time when there are so many worthier projects into which the American taxpayer could be sinking.