After a volcanic eruption and a federal cost-cutting push threatened its operations, NOAA confirms the world’s premier CO₂ record is funded, accessible again, and entering a major rebuild.
But how it was saved is also a warning about how easily it could have been lost.
I went looking for a contradiction.
Last spring, the headlines were grim. As part of a broad cost-cutting drive, the Trump administration moved to cancel the lease on the federal office behind NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, home of the Keeling Curve and one of the most consequential scientific records humanity has ever produced. This
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