Russian scientists believe that instead of global warming, the Earth is threatened by a global cooling. Scientists made this prediction by analyzing the soil from Lake Elgygytgyn, located in the Anadyr and Chaunsky regions of Chukotka.
Chukchi Lake Elgygytgyn
Experts concluded that the world should prepare for the onset of a global cooling after 20 years of research on the Chukchi Lake Elgygytgyn, formed as a result of a meteorite falling about 3.5 million years ago. The soil of this lake contains a kind of "map" of climatic changes.
When analyzing the rock at the bottom of the lake, some patterns were identified, according to which climatologists came to the conclusion that in the near future, a strong cold snap would threaten humanity. Scientists also note that the warming that is now observed on the planet is a short-term process.
Note that experts from the World Meteorological Organization have long stated that due to the greenhouse effect, the temperature in the Earth's atmosphere will only rise, and in the current century, humanity should expect 14 of the 15 hottest years.
And the UN is confident in the early onset of Global Warming
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The past year was the hottest in the history of observing the climate - and the trend towards global warming continues, the representatives of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO, one of the UN agencies) said the other day. The WMO Secretary General has promised the planet "an ever warmer future". This was reported by Agence France-Presse.
The air temperature on the planet last year was 0.57 degrees Celsius higher than the average for 1961-1990 (14 degrees). Moreover, fourteen of the fifteen hottest years (on record) were in the 21st century. In addition to record temperatures, many regions experienced heavy rains, floods and droughts in 2014, confirming the overall picture of a changing climate.
“We believe that global warming will continue. The rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the accumulation of heat in the world's oceans guarantee a warmer future for us,”said WMO Secretary General Michel Jarraud.
Temperature records are separated from each other by hundredths of a degree. So, 2010 was 0.55 degrees warmer than average, 2014 - by 0.57, 2005 - by 0.54.
Meteorologists also noticed that the record of the last year was achieved in the absence of El Niño - the phase of the Southern Oscillation (fluctuations in the temperature of the surface layer of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean), in which the region of heated waters moves to the east. The hottest year before this century (1998) was marked by a strong El Niño.
The WMO report was created based on data from leading scientific institutions of the planet, including NASA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Center for Climate Prediction and Research. Hadley (UK) and others. Some datasets have been collected since 1850.
Based on materials from newizv.ru and lenta.ru