{"id":32017,"date":"2025-07-17T16:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32017"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:27:20","slug":"mauna-loa-observatory-is-one-noaa-site-that-could-close-because-of-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32017","title":{"rendered":"Mauna Loa Observatory Is One NOAA Site That Could Close Because of Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet\u2019s changing atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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More than 11,100 feet above sea level, surrounded by nothing but black rocks, white clouds and blue sky, the Mauna Loa Observatory is in a Goldilocks spot for studying the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The air that swirls around the isolated outpost located on a Hawaiian volcano is a mix from all over the Northern Hemisphere. That makes it one of the best places to measure greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It is indispensable to scientists around the world.<\/p>\n

The readings collected from Mauna Loa, starting in 1958, were used to create what is famously known as the Keeling curve. It\u2019s an upward-swooping line that charts the steady rise of carbon dioxide over the past seven decades \u2014 the result of nations burning oil, gas and coal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But President Trump\u2019s proposed 2026 budget would put an end to Mauna Loa, along with three other key observatories and almost all the climate research being done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s frankly inconceivable,\u201d said Lisa Graumlich, an emeritus climate scientist at the University of Washington and past president of the American Geophysical Union. People know and understand the \u201ciconic\u201d record, she said. \u201cA lot of the science we do is incredibly complex, and this record is something that can be grasped.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet\u2019s changing atmosphere.More than 11,100 feet above sea level, surrounded by nothing but black rocks, white clouds and blue sky, the Mauna Loa Observatory is in a Goldilocks spot for studying the atmosphere.The air that swirls around the isolated outpost located on a Hawaiian volcano is a mix from all over the Northern Hemisphere. That makes it one of the best places to measure greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It is indispensable to scientists around the world.The readings collected from Mauna Loa, starting in 1958, were used to create what is famously known as the Keeling curve. It\u2019s an upward-swooping line that charts the steady rise of carbon dioxide over the past seven decades \u2014 the result of nations burning oil, gas and coal.But President Trump\u2019s proposed 2026 budget would put an end to Mauna Loa, along with three other key observatories and almost all the climate research being done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u201cIt\u2019s frankly inconceivable,\u201d said Lisa Graumlich, an emeritus climate scientist at the University of Washington and past president of the American Geophysical Union. People know and understand the \u201ciconic\u201d record, she said. \u201cA lot of the science we do is incredibly complex, and this record is something that can be grasped.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32019,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32020,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32017\/revisions\/32020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}