Environment & Energy

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I'm very worried that the instrument, a cavity ring down spectrometer is down with no money to fix it, the scientists have been fired, the purchase of analytical standards have been defunded, any and all of the above. The spectrometer is a relatively inexpensive device, about 200K, but surely one with a very limited pool of service engineers.

We have lost only one week of data since 1959, this during the orange pedophile's recent government shutdown. This week would be tragic, since we are nearing the annual maxima, which could be lost forever.

The last accepted daily reading was on the first of May, 433.95 ppm.

I have been very worried about the Observatory, given the reign of ignorance.