Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/iceland-sees-security-risk-existential-threat-atlantic-ocean-currents-possible-2025-11-12/

43•bikenaga•2mo ago

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mr_00ff00•2mo ago

The winters will get worse but also it would cause a new ice age?

Something seems off about saying these two things as if they mean the same thing.

danudey•2mo ago

An ice age is a period of expansion of glaciers and ice sheets, so winters could get worse without actually falling into an ice age.

Specifically, they're saying "this could cause an ice age, with winter temperatures plummeting to new extremes", which is a fair explanation of this potential future.

hinkley•2mo ago

I would like to see Greenland capture as much of their glacial meltwater as possible and bottle it, because all of that fresh water encroaching on the NA current is going to do nobody any good and I can't think of a better way to make lemonade from those lemons.

metalman•2mo ago

greenlands glaciers are many thousands of cubic kilometers/miles in volume, and the issue is that with a collapse of the gulf stream, the melting might stop, and Iceland and the rest at the "meeting"

https://www.arctictoday.com/iceland-sees-security-risk-exist...

are waking up too the quite real possibility of things getting to cold for there countrys to be habitable.

melting.

https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today

and the current they are concerned with

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/sst/contour/

anonnon•2mo ago

> Iceland declares threat to Atlantic Ocean current a national security risk

Iceland has no military, and they're concerned about "national security?"

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