A recent study found that “planet Earth is on the brink of a major ‘environmental disaster’ even if the world took the initiative to stop emissions today, and that’s because the damage has already happened, because What human hands have committed.”
According to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, “Greenland, the world’s largest island, will lose an enormous amount of ice sheets regardless of current global efforts.”
The study stated that “3.3 percent of the ice sheet covering Greenland will inevitably melt, which is equivalent to 110 trillion tons of ice.”
When this amount of ice on the island melts, it means that sea and ocean levels will rise by more than 30 cm, which is a threat to many countries located on the coasts.
Experts believe that “these predictions are more pessimistic than previous reports, while the study does not specify an exact time frame for this disaster to occur on an island that covers more than two million square kilometers.”
But the researchers suggested that “these major environmental disruptions will occur on the planet between our present moment and the year 2100.”
This summer, after European capitals recorded record temperatures and severe dry spells in the wake of wildfires that ravaged several Mediterranean forests, the world faced wholesale disasters said to be primarily caused by climate change. Is.
“What is needed is to find plans to deal with the ice that is melting in the near future,” says William Colgan, a researcher at the Center for Geological Studies in Denmark and Greenland, one of the participants in the study.
And if the sea level rises 25 to 30 centimeters, by 2050 on the coast of the United States, according to experts, this will spell disaster, because it will mean a fivefold increase in the occurrence of devastating floods.
In the case of moderate floods or floods that are described as more severe, their occurrence increases tenfold, which indicates a huge increase in human and material losses.
Other countries, such as low-lying islands and developing countries such as Bangladesh, are more vulnerable to disasters, especially since they have done little to mitigate the effects of climate change.
And when sea levels rise dramatically, affected countries will need billions of dollars to adapt to the new situation.
Source: Lebanon Debate
