Wrecking AMOC Not Just Fisheries are at Stakes

 By Irina Severin I Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/bdevwrh8 

The E.U. stepping up Ocean Monitoring in response to the Trump Administration's actions is a good move, but not enough for #Europe's survival. The stakes are much higher than "climate forecasting improvement and better anticipating changes to marine ecosystems."

This is not about fisheries; it is about military operations. Donald J. Trump should also consider transferring the ocean monitoring system to the military rather than dismantling it, since global war already unfolds in the oceans.

The fact that both the #US and the EU are unable to acknowledge this doesn't mean it is not waged.

Careful choice of words to avoid irritating Russia and pretend that nothing is happenning is not a winning position. Putin knows what he is doing, and this is exactly what he and his acolytes mean while threatening to erase Europe or the US from the face of the Earth.

A critical slowing of #AMOC, which can occur abruptly, even temporarily, would allow Russia to defeat both the US and the EU by inducing a disaster of apocalyptic proportions, and the forces of nature will do most of the work after being artificially unleashed.

For instance, an increase of less than 1 percent in ocean temperature in a certain area can trigger the collapse of the AMOC, which nobody can explain or stop because climate science itself can't address such challenges.

There is a need for a hybrid climate/weather/military science to respond to Russia's hybrid challenges, where such divisions have existed since Soviet times and are prioritized by Putin.

At the same time, such attacks can be prevented if US and European decision-makers come out of denial and face reality, as it is, not the reality carefully constructed by the Russian propaganda to blind the adversaries.