Environment & Energy

...but I suspect this is the case. Even if they are "removed" I doubt there will be people smashing them to pieces with hammers.

It will cost money to "destroy" the system and will require the participation of people who know where the system is installed, presumably well trained engineers.

I've been involved with the movement of advanced scientific instruments in my career from lab to lab. They require calibration and maintenance to be restored to their place, but the are generally serviceable.

I may be overoptimistic, since this moron is taking a chainsaw to science, but I don't think the damage will be irreversible. We'll lose data points to be sure, just as we did at the Mauna Loa CO₂ Observatory, this winter and spring, losing two weekly data points for the first time since 1975, but again, we can recover some of the information, if nothing else, by interpolation.