The "strange" (and this is putting it mildly) behavior of the weather in recent years increasingly makes scientists think about what will happen to our planet next. But major climate-related changes are already taking place. Extreme heat in Siberia has been the cause of fires for several weeks, but temperature increases have been recorded in other regions as well. In Europe, in the Sahara region and in Greenland. And the last one is a problem for our entire planet.
Why Greenland began to melt
In general, the Greenland ice sheet melts a little during the summer and recovers in the winter, and that's fine. However, this year the melting began much earlier - in May. At the same time, it is expected that the approaching warm front will intensify the melting of ice even more. Greenland's giant ice sheet rises 3,000 meters above sea level. Forecasters predict its peak will be especially warm this week. About zero degrees.
Why the heat in Greenland is bad
Mainly because the melting ice will fill the North Atlantic with fresh water, and this can affect the living organisms living there and the weather in Northwest Europe. Stronger storms can result. This has already happened in the UK in 2015 and 2016. The water from the Greenland ice sheet, scientists predict, will add more than one millimeter to the level of the world's oceans. And in tropical latitudes - more than two millimeters.
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Scientists at Oxford University also share concerns. A recent study published in the journal World Weather Attribution suggests similar heat waves could recur in future years, further affecting the melting of Greenland's glaciers. Ultimately, now the warm currents of the Atlantic Ocean, so to speak, "cool".
This all already leads to the fact that the climate on Earth is changing, which causes bursts of floods and an even greater severity of the sharply continental climate (when the winter is cold and the summer is hot). A hot summer can provoke new periods of abnormal heat, which closes the circle and may ultimately lead to global climate change on the planet in the foreseeable future.
Author: Vladimir Kuznetsov
