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268 Iceland is Planning For the Possibility That Its Climate Could Become Uninhabitable

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/10/2026 22:45 EDT

Iceland is Planning For the Possibility That Its Climate Could Become Uninhabitable

Iceland in October classified the potential collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation -- the ocean current system that ferries warm water northward from the tropics and essentially functions as the country's central heating -- as a national security risk, a designation that amounts to a formal reckoning with the possibility that climate change could render the island nation uninhabitable.

Several recent studies have found the AMOC far more vulnerable to breakdown than scientists had long

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