Trump admin strips ocean and air pollution monitoring from next-gen weather satellites

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/weather/noaa-satellites-climate-trump?utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit

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  1. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is [narrowing the capabilities](https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/weather/noaa-satellites-climate-trump?utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit) and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades, two people familiar with the plans told CNN.

    This move — which comes as hurricane season ramps up with Erin lashing the East Coast — fits a pattern in which the Trump administration is seeking to not only slash climate pollution rules, but also reduce the information collected about the pollution in the first place. Critics of the plan also say it’s a short-sighted attempt to save money at the expense of understanding the oceans and atmosphere better.

    Two planned instruments, one that would measure air quality, including pollution and wildfire smoke, and another that would observe ocean conditions in unprecedented detail, are no longer part of the project, the sources said.

    “This administration has taken a very narrow view of weather,” one NOAA official told CNN, noting the jettisoned satellite instruments could have led to better enforcement and regulations on air pollution by more precisely measuring it.

  2. Enjoy the weather I waiting on the trash typhoon lol pacific patch

  4. >“This administration has taken a very narrow view of weather,”

    Weather is something they can create with a sharpie.

  5. Yep, he’s right. He’s at the very bottom of the “heaven” totem pole.

  6. Does Trump really believe he’s stopping climate change by doing all this…because he isn’t and someone really should let him down easy so’s not to hurt his feelings.

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