Russia's Weaponization of North Atlantic "Cold Blob"

The fact that Finnish climate researchers successfully deployed stratospheric aerosol shields, which lowered local temperatures by degrees, has already provoked massive panic and anger in Russia despite the experiment's innocence.

An effective atmospheric filter (if harmless) could be a kind of pushback on Russia's efforts to melt the Arctic to improve its climate while distorting the global climate and damaging the rest of the world.

Russia's Weaponization of the North Atlantic "Cold Blob" against AMOC

While Russia mostly acts in the hydrosphere, the atmospheric response is better than nothing. The experiment, if scaled up, could have a real effect on preserving the #AMOC, as the main reason for its 15 percent slowdown is Russia's intentional destruction of Arctic ice formed in Russian waters, which should naturally shelter the Greenland ice sheet long before it reaches Greenland.

Natural flows of "young ice" from the nurseries in the Russian Kara and Laptev seas are replaced with warm-water flows. Instead of growing the #Greenland ice sheet, warm water melts it, creating a Cold Blob across the Gulf Stream's path, blocking its forward movement and diluting it with fresh, warm water, which also prevents #AMOC from overturning and stalls it.

The result of Amoc slowing would be severe cooling in Europe. Despite global warming, a major slowdown can cause temperatures in Northern Europe (such as the UK and Scandinavia) to plummet drastically, creating unpredictable springs and much harsher winters, the signs of which already occur.

For the US, the immediate result would be U.S. East Coast sea-level rise. As the northward flow slows, massive amounts of warm water pile up against the eastern seaboard of North America, dramatically accelerating localized sea-level rise in cities like New York and Boston, a trend already noticeable.

An AMOC slowdown severely affects China and India by disrupting East Asian climate patterns, leading to major problems. The massive heat dome in India is one example that will only worsen as the slowdown of AMOC intensifies El Niño into a Super El Niño, with catastrophic consequences for Indians.

Putin's "Sovereign Climate Doctrine" in Action

In 2009, Russia adopted a Sovereign Climate Doctrine. The word "Sovereign" implies that any efforts Russia undertakes to improve its climate are legitimate if carried out within Russian and Russian waters, regardless of their damaging impact on other countries. As Russia controls de jure more than half of the Arctic and de facto the rest, Russia has already freed itself from any responsibility toward the countries it destroys.

Even if Russia already has many more "military-technical" means engaged in climate #warfare, including both the hydrosphere and the atmosphere, the Finnish climate researcher's moves downplay Moscow's efforts and, if scaled, could potentially restore Arctic ice. Especially if Russia's invisible warfare is stopped.

No one wants to position the move as a war effort, but self-awareness of what is happening is necessary. The best way to stop Putin's invisible #climate #war against the world is to help Ukraine win the war and replace the current regime, delusionally obsessed with global climate change in Russia's favor.

Putin's Weaponization of Super El-Nino and Xi's Super Powers Over Russia

China is one of the most affected countries by the Russian climate war, as climate change significantly intensifies natural disasters, affecting China, including the impending Super El Niño artificially intensified by Russia in advance.

While China, as well as other countries, will suffer from Super El Niño, Russia will benefit in many ways, including the considerable melting of Arctic Ice and improved crop yields on the backdrop of #SuperElNiño-induced global food shortages.

China is the only country with real influence over Russia and can stop Putin from further heating the waters of the Pacific, thereby de-escalating disasters before they happen and preventing massive cataclysms worldwide.

My experience shows that only exposing Russian weather meddling stops it, at least for some time, but the effect is immediate. The lasting results necessitate consistent state effort to keep Russians in check, which hasn't happened yet.

But to stop Russia, #Chinese leaders should stop perceiving Russia as a big ideological brother, letting Putin, using reflexive control, lovebombing, and other manipulative techniques, covertly impose his will on #China as he usually does.

All this is especially important in the context of Putin's negotiations with #XiJinping, which are happening these days.