Environment

The Chill of Reality: Why We Declared the Ocean Current Collapse a National Security Threat

While the world burns under record-shattering summer heatwaves, we in Iceland are looking at a very different, terrifyingly cold future. By officially elevating the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to a national security risk, our government has broken a political taboo. We are forcing the world to look beyond linear climate models and confront the reality that our ocean's giant thermal engine is running out of steam.