{"id":115343,"date":"2025-09-05T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115343\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:41:09","slug":"climate-crisis-europe-may-freeze-if-amoc-ocean-current-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115343\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Crisis: Europe May Freeze If AMOC Ocean Current Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">To most people, adapting to climate change means preparing for warmer temperatures. It\u2019s why we\u2019re finally getting some long-overdue reservoirs in the UK, why Kent now has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2025-08-08\/england-s-sparkling-wine-is-losing-its-fizz?sref=r4AzvICB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">abundance of vineyards<\/a> and plucky growers are attempting to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englisholive.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">oil from locally grown olives in Lincolnshire.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">But what if the climate crisis instead plunges us into a world of frozen winters and parched summers, rendering those agricultural investments worthless? This risk has been <a href=\"https:\/\/en.vedur.is\/media\/ads_in_header\/AMOC-letter_Final-export.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">greatly underestimated<\/a>, as well as poorly communicated \u2014 and it all depends on what happens in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To most people, adapting to climate change means preparing for warmer temperatures. It\u2019s why we\u2019re finally getting some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[556,55457,1397,591,55458,8170,6232,32777,90,3356,55459,56,54,55,10976],"class_list":["post-115343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-current","tag-environment","tag-europe","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-global-warming","tag-greenland","tag-north-atlantic","tag-science","tag-stocks","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}