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Trump administration officials plan to dismantle a key system that monitors Atlantic Ocean currents at risk of collapse. Scientists warn the move could blind us to a critical climate tipping point.
The Trump administration plans to dismantle a system that monitors Atlantic Ocean currents at risk of collapse. Scientists warn the move could blind the U.S. to a critical climate tipping point. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—the system that keeps Europe's climate temperate—has shown signs of weakening, and losing real-time monitoring data means losing the early warning system.
Dismantling monitoring infrastructure is different from denying climate change. It's about removing the ability to see what's happening. Once the system is gone, rebuilding it would take years and cost far more than maintaining it. If the Atlantic Current does collapse—an event with catastrophic consequences for global weather—the U.S. will have deliberately chosen not to see it coming. It's a concrete loss of institutional capacity to respond to a known risk.
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