{"id":1954,"date":"2025-08-16T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/1954\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:15:12","slug":"the-shutdown-of-ocean-currents-could-freeze-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/1954\/","title":{"rendered":"The shutdown of ocean currents could freeze Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Those who think about national security love to bandy acronyms such as ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) and WOMBAT (Weapon of Magnesium, Battalion, Anti-Tank). They need to add AMOC to the list. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/the-economist-explains\/2023\/08\/02\/what-is-amoc-the-heat-distributing-atlantic-current\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation<\/a> is not a weapons system. But it could lay waste a continent\u2014specifically, Europe\u2014to an extent that only a nuclear war could outmatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who think about national security love to bandy acronyms such as ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[442,18,440,19,17,2335,2336,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-1954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-leaders","14":"tag-opinion","15":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}