There is no way Europe without Russia: The Bering Strait can solve the problem of the Gulf Stream

The closure of the Bering Strait will help stop the weakening of the Gulf Stream, climatologists say. This is stated in an article in the scientific journal Science Advances.

According to Dutch scientists, this will make it possible to make a wall built on the bottom at the narrowest point of the Bering Strait.

"The construction of a wall with a height of 50-59 m and a length of about 80 km at the bottom of the Bering Strait will stabilize the current system in the Atlantic and prevent their further weakening, which will lead to catastrophic and irreversible consequences for the climate. Projects of similar scale have already been implemented by mankind during the construction of the 34-kilometer Samangym dam in South Korea," the publication quoted by TASS as saying.

According to scientists, the wall should consist of three 80-kilometer dams. One will connect Chukotka with the Russian island of Ratmanov, the second will block the strait between it and the American island of Kruzenshtern, and the third will stretch from this island to the coast of Alaska. Since the strait is shallow, the height of the dam will not exceed 59 m.

The construction of such a wall in the next 50-200 years, as the calculations of the authors of the idea show, will avoid the collapse of the Atlantic meridional circulation due to the redistribution of water flows in the Arctic Ocean. And consequently — abrupt climate changes in the west of Eurasia in the near future and its global restructuring in the coming centuries, scientists believe.