Don't Look Up: Trump is Desperate To Hide Ocean Warming
I didn't even realize what it was about until now
I’ve spoken before about Climate Tipping Points.
See, there are systems in our global climate that feed into each other and influence each other to the degree that if one falls, it starts a domino effect that disrupts everything around it.
These are things like the polar ice caps melting, which raises sea water level and temperature and reduces the reflective surface area at the poles, which in turn increases warming because it’s no longer reflecting heat from the sun.
It’s a negative feedback loop that makes everything worse.
There are a lot of climate tipping points starting to wobble right now, and for those of us in the know, it’s making us very, very nervous.
These include:
The polar ice caps melting, like I just talked about
The Arctic Ice Sheet starting to thaw, which threatens to release a huge burst of carbon and methane into the atmosphere
Coral Reef die-offs, which impacts the food cycle of marine life. This disrupts plankton, which is a prime source of the oxygen we breathe. Like, 50-80% of it
The AMOC current is on the brink of collapse
And it’s that last one that I want to talk about right now, because I think this one is often overlooked. And I think it has something to do with what we discussed the other day.
AMOC stands for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. It’s the global current that transports warm water from the tropics all the way up and around northern Europe. The water cools, sinks from the surface, and circulates back down south to warm up again.
It’s like the cooling system in an air conditioner. It regulates the Earth’s temperature in an endless loop. It’s absolutely vital. Any disruption of this current threatens to destabilize everything.
And unfortunately, it is showing signs of disruption.
Scientists have noticed patches of cooling in unusual places along the current’s route, indicating that the water circulation may not be flowing the way it used to, and warm water isn’t reaching places it should.
They’re calling it the Atlantic ‘cold blob.’
It could mean that the AMOC is in the process of slowing down, which indicates a future collapse within our lifetimes. The next couple of decades, if we’re extremely unlucky.
What would that mean? That’s harder to predict. Certainly it would mean highly unstable weather patterns, even moreso than we’ve had the past few years. It’d mean warm water remaining centered in the south, causing the global south’s temperature to rise significantly.
It would also mean, in the absence of warm water rising to the northern regions, that our northern countries would face even more brutal winters than usual.
Potentially catastrophic winters. Like, miniature ice-age winters.
So, this is all pretty bad. But why am I bringing Trump into this, per the title? Well, it’s because of those ocean monitoring projects that his regime is currently tearing apart.
Because that project was part of an initiative that tracks shit like this. Now that scientists have reported findings like this, and concern has been growing for the past few years, suddenly there’s a pressing need to defund and take these projects apart?
I have a sneaking suspicion it’s because Trump doesn’t want information like that spreading. He doesn’t like sharing news that makes him or his policies look bad — and he has a lot of policies that are poised to tear down environmental protections and worsen Climate Change.
He doesn’t want the media to pair those policies with catastrophic findings like these.
It’s the COVID-19 cruise ships all over again. If you stop testing, there won’t be any cases to report!
He’ll drag us all into a nightmarish hellscape, but he doesn’t want any of us to know he shares responsibility for it. Because he’s an egotistical piece of shit.
So, please, help me ruin his plans and share this post around if you can. He can’t distract us from this; our lives are on the line, and we have a right to the information provided by these studies.
We have to know what’s going on if we’re to prepare for our future and fight to make it better.
Please restack, share, link it to your friends and social media, and help raise awareness of this issue. Amidst all of the other shit Trump is doing, Climate Change needs to be top of mind.
For all of our sakes.
Solidarity wins.