{"id":69945,"date":"2025-08-15T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69945\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:24:11","slug":"the-shutdown-of-ocean-currents-could-freeze-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69945\/","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":69946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[556,1397,14478,6884,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-69945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-leaders","11":"tag-opinion","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945","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=69945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}