The information office of the Alfred Wegener Institute has announced that rising temperatures in the Arctic will lead to the loss of more than 70 percent of Siberia’s forests by the middle of the current millennium.
The information office says this will happen even if all Paris climate agreements are implemented.
According to a report published in the journal eLife, climate scientists believe that even if the critical climate threshold rises above 1.5 degrees Celsius, it will lead to almost complete destruction of coral reefs and increasing the number of storm and hurricane. The sinking of many cities due to melting ice in Greenland and the North and South Poles and other serious consequences. This is demonstrated by the results of computer simulations of the Earth’s climate and measurements from satellites, weather stations and ocean buoys.
Scientists point out that the climate crisis is particularly acute in the Arctic, where temperatures have risen more than two degrees Celsius over the past 50 years, and it is accelerating across the planet.
The researchers decided to determine how warming would affect it in and around the tundra. According to them, deciduous forests are moving at a speed of up to 20 kilometers per decade. Thus, the tundra area is gradually shrinking because native species cannot travel northward due to the ocean.
Climatologists have developed different scenarios for changing the landscape of the Siberian tundra over the next 1000 years. The results of the calculation of indicators for forest growth in northern Eurasia in all situations showed that the tundra area is shrinking by up to 6 percent or completely disappearing by the middle of the current millennium.
“Global warming will change not only the polar cover and the Arctic Ocean, but also the lands in the Arctic,” said Professor Ulrka Hertzshu of the Alfred Wegener Institute. “The area of the Siberian and North American tundra will decrease significantly. As we move forward, in the worst case scenario, the tundra will completely disappear in the middle of the current millennium.
According to scientists, this issue should be considered when developing plans to protect the Arctic from the consequences of climate change.
Source: TASS
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