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Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this.
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The government of Iceland now considers this a national security threat. arctictoday.com/iceland-sees-s…
And the Foreign Intelligence Service of Germany together with other German institutions published a National Climate Risk Assessment this year.
Here is what it says about #AMOC tipping risk.
"The systems affected by tipping points include the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which includes the Gulf Stream system; if this system was weakened or even interrupted, Europe would face extreme winter cold and more winter storms, among other things. There is a chance that the AMOC tipping point may be passed and the system will start to collapse by the middle of the century. That would entail enormous consequences for social, political, economic and technical systems in the following decades."

Iceland sees security risk, existential threat in Atlantic Ocean current's possible collapse - ArcticToday

Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country’s climate minister told Reuters.
Reuters (ArcticToday)
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