Post by Sjoerd Groeskamp

I’ve said it before on this platform and will continue to do so. However, this time together with my great collogues Penny Holliday (National Oceanography Centre) and Femke de Jong (NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), in the form of a piece in The Guardian. The point: Governments don’t commit to properly monitor the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).   The AMOC is a vast system of ocean current that regulates the global climate upon which modern civilization is built - from agriculture, through infrastructure to health, prosperity and culture. Changes in this the AMOC will affect our daily lives and future lives.   Due to a combination of reasons – which this report highlights https://lnkd.in/egcE879j - funding for AMOC monitoring is about to be discontinued. This will leave us unaware, unprotected and unprepared. We therefore urge the EU and its member states + other international partners to step up, make haste, get organized and collaborate to assure long-term continuation of AMOC monitoring before it is lost. The problem is acute, the cost is tiny, the value is enormous.   Together with Member of the European Parlement Mohammed Chahim, we have already tried to get Europe moving through a letter to Wopke Hoekstra, Costas Kadis and Ekatarina Zaharieva. https://lnkd.in/ejFREcDQ Also within the Netherlands we see initiatives and movement, for examples through questions to parlement from Laurens Dassen. So I remain hopefull - action can be taken as urgently as the situation asks for! But, putting it bluntly – no financial means have yet been committed to save AMOC monitoring. So as long as that is not the case, we will continue to sound the alarm. Here is the Opinion Piece: https://lnkd.in/eCSGWgjN