2019 may be another year of disaster for the Arctic as the temperature (Circuit Bullet) has risen to a record, accelerating the forecast of the mass of melting ice this year could exceed record levels. year 2012.
According to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Greenland’s Summit Observation Station, located at an altitude of 3,000m, on April 30 recorded the warmest temperature in history of -1.2 degrees Celsius. meanwhile, on June 12, the temperature measured in Qaanaaq, Greenland was 17.3 degrees Celsius - 0.3 degrees Celsius lower than the temperature recorded on June 30, 2012.
This situation has caused the ice sheets to quickly melt. Only on June 17, Greenland lost 3.7 billion tons of ice.
In addition, DMI said that the thawing season this year takes place from the beginning of May, which is a month earlier than every year according to the records made since 1980. The melting season soon in May happened in 2016.
According to scientists’ calculations, the annual melting of ice in Greenland causes the sea level to rise by 0.7mm, but at the current melting rate, this figure may increase.
Since 1972, Greenland’s melting ice has contributed to a total sea level rise of 13.7mm. According to climate researcher Xavier Fettweis of Liege University, from the beginning of June until now, 37 billion tons of Greenland ice melted.
The speed of melting ice in Greenland is now 6 times faster than that of the 80s of the last century. These are alarming warnings about the warming of the Earth.
In 2014, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecasts the worst scenario at the end of the 21st century, when sea levels will rise by more than 1 m above sea level in the 1986 period. -2005.
Due to the warming atmosphere, human life and the Arctic creatures are forced to change to adapt. For humans, the hunting season will gradually narrow, directly affecting human survival here, which depends mainly on this source of hunting food.
According to the US Geological Survey, the number of bears has decreased by about 40% in the last decade due to the melting of ice, while the number of narwhal species has also decreased as the species is forced to seek shelter in the Ice tunnel is a haven for "predators" like killer whales
