FIVE MAJOR WEATHER ANOMALIES
First, let's try to understand what is happening with the weather in Russia and throughout the planet. And then we’ll figure out who is to blame for this and what will happen next.
Vadim Zavodchenkov, leading specialist at the Phobos center, compiled for “KP” a rating of weather anomalies that Russia experienced in May and early June 2017:
1. Hurricane in Moscow.
Wind gusts reached 30 meters per second, which has never happened in the entire history of meteorological observations. The hurricane was caused by cold atmospheric front. “Such fronts always come with rain, thunderstorms and strong wind. And although the process is classic, the degree of its development is extraordinary, due to the large temperature contrasts intensified by the metropolis: the asphalt warms up one and a half times more than the ground, and the greater the temperature contrast, the higher the wind speed,” says Vadim Zavodchenkov. No weather anomaly has caused so much damage in such a long time. a short time- just a few hours.
2. Tornadoes in Tatarstan, Altai, and the Urals.
Extremely atypical phenomena for our country, especially at this time of year. This is the first time in history for Tatarstan; in Altai, tornadoes occur once every 10 years.
3. Cold temperature anomalies
The leader in cold weather is the center and the entire European part of Russia. Last May was the coldest in several decades, the temperature did not reach the climate norm by more than 3 degrees. Even in June we were hit by snowfall and night frosts! For the era of global warming in which we live, all this is very unusual.
4. Arctic invasions
But not all of Russia is freezing. In southern Siberia - Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Abakan, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk - heat records were broken in May. But even there, waves of extreme heat were replaced by equally sharp cold snaps. “Usually in May there are two intrusions of arctic air in Siberia; this year there were four of them in a month. Such sudden and frequent weather changes are also non-standard phenomena. By the way, they were the causes of tornadoes: icy air from the Arctic collided with hot air, in contrast, powerful Cumulus clouds, and under them the funnels of tornadoes were spinning,” explains the meteorologist.
5. Heavy rains and flooding in the Stavropol region and other regions of the North Caucasus.
THE ARCTIC IS WARMING - WE ARE FREEZING
The reason for all these anomalies in 2017 - warm, cold, wet and windy - oddly enough, is the same. Global warming, - assures Vadim Zavodchenkov.
Where is the logic? He is ready to explain:
Cold air is denser and heavier than warm air - we know this from school. On a global scale, cold air from the poles, due to its weight under the influence of gravity, “flows” to the southern latitudes. And since the planet rotates counterclockwise, when viewed from above North Pole, in mid-latitudes air flows begin to move from west to east. This is how the west-east transfer occurs air masses, which creates normal, familiar weather for us. Cyclones come to the center of Russia from the Atlantic, bring rain, go further to the Volga and the Urals, in the intervals between cyclones it is sunny and dry. But this is normal. It's different now.
It's extremely warm in the Arctic: global warming at the poles it goes faster than the average on Earth. Spring 2017 average temperature in Arctic latitudes was 3 degrees higher than normal, in winter anomalies reached 6 degrees. The ice extent in the Arctic Ocean in April was a record low for this time of year. A open water It is always warmer than ice, which also causes the air temperature to rise.
What's the result? The flow of cold air into southern latitudes is not as powerful as usual. As a result, the west-east jet, which carries cyclones along their usual paths, also weakens. Instead, they rush around in a sinusoid: sometimes from north to south, sometimes from south to north. It is called meridional transport of air masses, and it increasingly determines our weather. The frequent Arctic invasions that I spoke about are precisely of this nature. Air from the north “falls” far to the south.
A cold May in the European part of Russia - the result of the so-called blocking. This is when meridional flows are squeezed by anticyclones and cannot move anywhere - the air flows from north to south or from south to north for weeks. Remember the heat of 2010? It was a blocking process. Now too, but with a different acquaintance. For a whole month, Moscow and neighboring regions received only cold air from the north.
Our expert is supported and general secretary World Meteorological Organization Petteri Taalas:
The poles influence weather in lower latitudes, where hundreds of millions of people live. Arctic warming and shrinkage sea ice associated with extreme events such as prolonged cold spells, heat waves and droughts in the northern hemisphere, he quotes from the official WMO statement.
NOT JUST WARMING
In fact, any hints about global warming now sound like a mockery. Is snow in June your vaunted global warming? And the fact that on June 15 in Moscow is +15 degrees, too? Well, thank you!
What is happening to the climate on a scale not only of Russia, but of the entire planet? Tells Alexey Kokorin, Head of the Climate and Energy Program at the World Fund wildlife(WWF) in Russia:
- The planet Earth is definitely warming, and this is not my opinion, but a scientific, proven fact. But it's not that simple.
Yep, we already guessed it. If it were just warming, it would be hot now! I just want to be sarcastic. But let's listen further:
All oceans on the planet are gradually warming up upper layer water, to a depth of 700 - 1000 meters. And even at a depth of 2 kilometers there is a noticeable increase in temperature. And this is the ocean main element climate system. The atmosphere, unlike the ocean, is very mobile and changeable. AND If there is definitely warming in the ocean, then in the atmosphere there is climate change.
Indeed: in almost all scientific (not Internet-newspaper) publications this very term is used - climate change, climate change, not global warming. Not because there is no warming. But because Warming is not the only and not the worst thing that is happening to the climate.
What's the worst thing? And what to do with it? Read on.
There will be no summer in Central Russia, and abnormal heat in Siberia
Posted 12/26/2018
In a hard to reach area Khabarovsk Territory An impressive landing of scientists, rescuers and officials landed. A special commission carefully examined the place where a huge hill collapsed and blocked the bed of the Bureya River. We need to understand why this happened. The original version - a meteorite fall - has already been abandoned. But others appeared, no less mysterious.
By the end of December, the main natural mystery of the year appeared: how did an entire hill collapse into the river? Now this event is being studied by Far Eastern scientists and in Moscow institutes. The Interdepartmental Commission has already visited the site. Experts have completely dismissed the version of the meteorite fall - neither NASA nor Roscosmos satellites recorded any flashes in the Bureya area, and seismologists have no data that there were any tremors in this place. The interdepartmental commission worked all day. She estimates that almost 4 million tons of soil slid into the river. Today’s main conclusion is that the background radiation is normal, which means that there were no space objects, including the fall of any orbital debris, at this point.
For the second day, the priority version of the collapse of the hill remains a certain thermal anomaly. The Scientific Center for Space Hydrometeorology has already studied images from European and Japanese satellites of this place and put forward a hypothesis that a hill about a kilometer long and about 160 meters high fell into Bureya on the morning of December 12. Moreover, from images from space it can be determined that on that day the temperature at the site of the collapse was higher than in the surrounding area.
The thermal anomaly in this place is explained by tectonic cracks. They could have made a kind of “corridor” in the hill, warm air from the depths began to rise upward, followed by a difference in external and internal temperatures, which could lead to the destruction of rocks and a collapse. However, at the Institute of Geography Russian Academy Scientists are asked to be patient to clarify this version. They are awaiting Russian photographs of the site from the ISS, and only after this will scientists publish final conclusions about what happened on Bureya.
The situation most likely will not affect the operation of the Bureyskaya HPP. The RusHydro company sees no reason for concern yet. Now for the largest work on Far East hydroelectric power station has a sufficient supply of water in the reservoir. But if the river does not break through the blockage for a long time, then blasting work will begin and the riverbed will be freed. There are no serious risks for the Bureya hydroelectric power station, but scientists will still continue to find out: is the collapse of the hill in these places an isolated natural event during a thermal anomaly, or can collapses be expected at other points along Bureya?
It is significant that today weather forecasters react to reports from different parts of the Earth about temperature records as something ordinary. And +50 degrees in Africa and the Middle East, and + 41 in Japan, and the unprecedented + 33 degrees in Scandinavia, and +32 in Murmansk do not particularly surprise them. And the heat in Mexico and southern California is generally taken for granted.
Now this climate has established itself on Earth; it is called capricious or nervous. Increasingly, powerful heat waves have begun to recur in the atmosphere, so temperatures remain quite above normal. long time, - said the leading meteorologist of the Hydrometeorological Center, Marina Makarova, in a conversation with an RG correspondent.
The climate is called capricious or nervous. Today some regions suffer from anomalies, and tomorrow the misfortunes spread to others
But Makarova especially emphasizes that this does not happen everywhere, but locally. Moreover, this phenomenon applies not only to heat, but also to cold. And the most remarkable thing is that the picture changes almost every year. Today some regions suffer from climate change, and tomorrow this scourge spreads to others. “For example, in June it was very hot in Siberia, especially in Krasnoyarsk, but in July everything returned to normal, and minimum temperature records began to be updated there,” says Makarova.
The culprit behind various temperature anomalies this summer in the Northern Hemisphere is subtropical zone anticyclones. It “works” every year, but in this, according to Makarova, this zone high pressure climbed up high altitudes, warming up the entire atmosphere. Such air waves can develop crests that can penetrate traditionally cold spots. And then anomalies arise there. This is exactly the kind of ridge that crawled onto the Kola Peninsula this summer, and the temperature in the Murmansk region rose to +32 C. This has not happened here since the 70s of the last century.
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And experts from the World Meteorological Organization name another reason for the heat in the Northern Hemisphere. In addition to the subtropical anticyclone, the so-called jet streams made their contribution to the weather. This is an air flow at an altitude of about 10 km, which transports moisture and heat from west to east, redistributing precipitation across the planet and smoothing out various anomalies. So this year these currents weakened, which seriously affected the weather throughout the planet.
But all these reasons for the anomalies, according to weather forecasters, are “small” details, special cases against the background of the main one - global warming. And it inevitably comes. The evidence is clear, such as the increase in temperature over the period 1850-2000. the largest in the last 1400 years, and in the 20th century the records follow each other: they were recorded in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. According to scientists, a new record will be set in 2018. From year to year in the summer, the ice area in the Arctic is steadily decreasing, glaciers in Antarctica are melting, huge icebergs are breaking off from them, raising the level of the World Ocean. Vast areas are suffering from drought. (By the way, this year it has hit many countries; experts are already predicting a decline in harvests and an increase in food prices). These are all clear signs of global warming.
Experts from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have issued an unequivocal verdict. The planet is facing a global catastrophe. It is prophesied by supercomputers on which various climate models are calculated. Let's say, the average daily temperature in summer in cities such as Jerusalem, New York, Los Angeles and Mumbai will be +45 C. In London and Paris it will exceed 30 C. The same heat will come to Central Russia, including Moscow. There is almost a 100% chance that the Himalayan glaciers in the Everest region will melt. Another misfortune is the coming flood due to rising ocean levels. The ocean coasts will go under water, especially many Largest cities world, such as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, etc.
Most scientists are unanimous: climate catastrophe is caused by man himself, filling the atmosphere with gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide. According to estimates, throughout history we have been allocated to throw away 3,000 billion tons, we have already “spent” about 2,000 billion, and 1,000 billion remain. With current emissions of 50 billion tons per year, earthlings have only 20 years left to stop warming.
Temperature increase over the period 1850 - 2000. the largest in the last 1400 years, and in the 20th century the records follow each other. This year may top the list
Today, the fate of humanity depends on just one number. The average increase in temperature on Earth until the end of the century should not exceed 2 degrees Celsius. Otherwise the climate will get to everyone. The response of earthlings to this challenge was the Paris Climate Agreement signed in 2015: 195 countries of the world pledged to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Of course, skeptics are confident that the agreement will remain on paper. However, although not 100 percent, it works. Thus, last year, for the first time in many years, carbon dioxide emissions decreased. Although total continues to grow. According to scientists, the reason is the inertia of the process. Man has been dispersing it for many years, now it will take a lot of effort to stop it.
In Austria, service dogs are equipped with special boots to protect them from the heat. Photo: LPD Wien
But a number of scientists continue to insist that states will not be able to agree, and that the hour of “ICS” is rapidly approaching. And they offer to reflect Sun rays, spraying large volumes of sulfur into the stratosphere. However, this idea has many shortcomings, and solutions must be sought to eliminate them.
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Climate vagaries now cost earthlings approximately $130 billion annually. The number of extreme weather events and damage from droughts, hurricanes and floods increases every year. In just the past seven years, the frequency of such anomalies has increased by almost 50 percent. Besides, extreme climate harms health, promotes the spread of infections, increases pollution environment.
The Japanese escape from high temperatures with the help of special devices. Photo: REUTERS
It is especially emphasized that last year the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere exceeded the psychologically significant mark of 400 ppm (parts per million). Last time a comparable number was five million years ago. Then the climate was warmer by 2-3 degrees, and the sea level was 10-20 meters higher than now due to the melting of the ice in Greenland and East Antarctica.
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Continents are asking for water
This week there are reports from all over the world about abnormal heat that has covered not only Europe, but also Asia and Latin America. Tragic news about the death of people who cannot withstand heatstroke or die from exacerbation of chronic diseases is juxtaposed with curious and touching cases.
Thus, photographs of the Vienna police department, where service dogs were urgently put on special boots, circulated on social networks. Dog handlers in Zurich took the same measures in relation to their pets. The asphalt in these cities gets so hot during the day and even in the morning that animals burn their paw pads. “Dog sneakers” had to be taken out of warehouses - they are usually used during search operations, when four-legged animals risk injury. Meanwhile, compassionate Englishmen are issuing instructions on how to help hedgehogs endure the heat: it is recommended to leave ordinary bowls of water on the streets for them. Well, in Finland, where the thermometer exceeded the record high for this northern country of 33 degrees Celsius, deer have ceased to be afraid of people: they come straight to the beaches, to the banks of rivers and lakes, and greedily drink water, not paying attention to vacationers.
Shallowing large rivers in Central and Western Europe led not only to inevitable disruptions in shipping, but also to very unexpected effects. As the Spiegel online portal writes, due to an unprecedented decrease in the water level in the Elbe (in the area of the Magdeburg Bridge it now barely covers the historical mark of 48 centimeters during the drought of 1934), in some places... ammunition from the Second World War appeared on the shallows. Over the past week alone, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, employees of the police technical unit have discovered five areas where hand, rifle and anti-tank grenades and mines had been lying at the bottom for decades, and now they have literally “floated” to the surface. Sappers have already collected 21 finds - all specimens had to be urgently neutralized. But the abnormal heat that covered Albion unexpectedly became a real gift for English archaeologists, revealing traces of prehistoric monuments hitherto hidden under thick grass. For example, in fields across East Yorkshire, where the sun had scorched the fresh ears of corn, earthen ditches and markers of late Neolithic and early Iron Age buildings were revealed for the first time. Even fragments of Roman settlements were revealed to the eyes of amazed researchers. Well, in Nottinghamshire, on the territory of the protected Clumber Park, the “ghost” of a manor house, demolished in 1938, suddenly appeared. From a bird's eye view, you can now see the contours of the foundation that was once laid here with the layout of rooms and corridors, as well as the sundial that has sunk into oblivion! Even veteran museum workers who had worked in the park since the 1970s were not aware of such details. Europeans are also suffering on the other side of the English Channel. And the further south you go, the harder it is. The real “African” heat has reached Italy. The Republic's Ministry of Health has introduced the highest, "red" threat level in 18 large populated areas due to the abnormally hot weather that prevailed in the Apennines this week. The Ministry of Health's warning primarily concerns the central and northern regions of the country. In particular, we're talking about about Rome, Milan, Turin, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Trieste, Verona - in most of these cities the thermometer exceeded the 40-degree mark. Yesterday was the hottest day in the Apennines this year: on Thursday the temperature rose to a record 43 degrees. It is not surprising that, against the backdrop of round-the-clock use of air conditioners and fans, electricity consumption in Italy has sharply increased and the threat of arbitrary blackouts has increased. Elderly people endure this heat the worst. IN last days There has been a sharp increase in reports of hospitalization of this particular category of citizens who sought emergency treatment. medical care due to severe headache, nausea and high temperature. According to meteorologists, the heat will last in the Apennines for at least another week.
Questions about what is happening with the weather are already arising even in the minds of people who are far from meteorology and science in general. Why? It’s hard not to notice that something wrong is happening with the weather in Russia. Is it that serious?
Summer in Russia 2017
In June 2017, the weather in Russia played its first trick. When residents of central Russia were planning to open the season of shorts and T-shirts, the weather threw them a surprise. It rained all month, and the weather was autumn, even snow fell, what a pair of shorts. But in the northern regions of Russia at that time there was unprecedented heat for that region.
In July 2017, summer warming came abruptly and there was unprecedented heat. And only August was more or less like itself, it was about 25 degrees Celsius. And then, completely unheard of, in September 2017 a hurricane swept through Moscow. Tornadoes also swept through Tatarstan and the Urals.
Many people remember the abnormal heat of 2010, but the next year everything returned to normal. What is happening with the weather now and what will happen in the summer of 2018?
What will winter be like in Russia?
Russians joke that they are waiting for the warmth they didn’t receive in June in December. What forecasts do meteorologists give?
Europe was shocked by the statement of scientist James Madden that the winter of 2017-2018 will be very severe, moreover, the coldest in the last 100 years. In his opinion, from this year we can start counting down a new climate period. In Russia there will no longer be mild winters with an air temperature of -5 °C, but as before, at least -25-30 °C. The cold snap will also affect Europe.
Russian meteorologists are not so categorical and say that the winter will be average, but snow will fall early, even in the autumn months. There are no promises of wild cold weather, the only thing is that the temperature drop will occur sharply. But few meteorologists deny that the climate is changing.
Is it only in Russia that weird weather happens?
In 2017, something is happening with the weather not only in Russia. At the end of summer, Hurricane Irma of unheard-of duration swept across the Florida coast and the Pacific Islands.
There were severe floods in Bangladesh in June.
In the summer in Japan, the thermometer exceeded 40 °C. Many Japanese were hospitalized with heat stroke because they were not used to such heat.
What is the reason for the anomalies
The reason for what is happening with the weather (2017), and such drastic climate changes, is considered to be unprecedented Lately temperature rise in Pacific Ocean by 1 °C. It would seem a trivial increase, but it led to the fact that the temperature in the Arctic increased by as much as 3 ° C. And now a powerful cold cyclone is heading towards Europe and Russia.
A person far from meteorology has a reasonable question: how does warming in the Arctic cause cooling on the Eurasian continent? Here's the thing. When the flows warm air sharply collide with the flows of Arctic air, then the flows of denser and heavier cold are repelled far beyond the borders of the Arctic continent. The stronger this collision, the more crooked the air direction becomes and the further the cold air flows from the Arctic are thrown. This process is scientifically called meridional transport of air masses. It is he who is to blame for the fact that in some places around the world the weather can become unpredictable. For example, in May in central Russia this flow slowed down the arrival of a warm cyclone, and the weather “frozen” and did not change at the usual time.
Due to this meridional transfer of air masses, cold air flows, which usually do not reach the European part of Eurasia, may reach in the winter of 2017. Then it will become unusually cold on this continent. And the cause of such processes, as paradoxical as it may sound, is global warming.
Global warming: what is it?
The phenomenon of global warming is not entirely correctly named; “global warming of the world’s oceans” would be more correct. Warming does not occur on the entire planet at the same time, but in the world's oceans.
As is also known from school curriculum, the ocean has a huge impact on the weather. How? Gigantic masses of water, heating up, evaporate; such an amount of steam has a crazy amount of energy. This energy forms the air currents that control the weather. This is how wind currents are born that carry the clouds, they become clouds and then rain down all over the planet. Water on the planet is in an eternal cycle, freezing, evaporating, moving. But all the water that is now on the planet is actually the same that dinosaurs and mammoths drank.
But why did nature behave this way, why is global warming of the ocean happening? This happens due to greenhouse effect.
Greenhouse effect: consequences and causes
So that cucumbers and tomatoes ripen faster in the climate Central Russia, housewives use greenhouses. Using their example, you can understand how the greenhouse effect works. The earth evaporates moisture, generating heat, but the heat cannot completely leave the greenhouse, and due to this, the temperature under the film becomes higher than outside it. This is due to an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air.
The greenhouse effect itself is not the source of all the planet's ills. Moreover, without the greenhouse effect, the average temperature on Earth would reach -18 °C and life would hardly be possible in the form in which it exists now. When the Earth was still young, there was so much carbon dioxide in the air that ocean temperatures were close to boiling point. But with the advent of plants, the concentration of carbon dioxide decreased, and a harmony of carbon dioxide and oxygen emerged, in which the life of creatures such as mammals became possible.
But recently, human industrial activity has increased the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air. The air temperature began to rise again. Over the 20th century, the average temperature on the planet increased by almost 1 °C, and the growth rate is increasing. Yes, we are still far from the boiling point, but what will happen to the climate in 10 years? And after 1000?
Have there already been climate disasters on the planet?
Many will remember that dinosaurs did not die a natural death. Destroyed them glacial period. And what’s interesting is that this is not the first and certainly not the last climate disaster on Earth:
- The first of them occurred when there was no life on Earth, 4.5 billion years ago. Supposedly there was a violent impact with a planet the size of Mars. As a result, a part broke off from the Earth, which later became the moon.
- About 850 million years ago, the entire surface of the Earth was covered with ice, no less, for 250 million years. And this would have continued to this day if the ice had not been melted by awakened volcanoes.
- But because of these same volcanoes, another climate catastrophe subsequently occurred. Thanks to excavations in Perm region It was found that 250 million years ago something happened on Earth that destroyed almost all life. There are only 5% of living organisms left on Earth. Some of them died under the burning lava, and some suffocated from the carbon dioxide that was released during the eruptions. The Earth recovered only after 30 million years.
- And finally, the last catastrophe that occurred 65 million years ago and killed the dinosaurs. Unlike previous disasters, this mass extinction of species is more difficult to explain. Geologists could not find any visible changes. Here we can only put forward theories, the most popular is the fall of an asteroid, which caused fires that obscured the sun with its smoke. The Earth became colder and the dinosaurs became extinct.
Predictions of a climate catastrophe
Scientists made many such predictions until they came true. But if it comes, it will look like this:
- The temperature will rise inexorably.
- All glaciers on the planet will melt.
- Cities that are not under water will face terrible famine due to drought.
- The real end of the world will come on Earth, people will be at each other's throats because of food, of which over time there will be very little left.
- Few people will survive until the temperature reaches a critical level.
Shift of magnetic poles and what it will lead to
This is another danger that threatens a person. The Earth has a powerful magnetic field, which has two pluses: north and south. These poles move periodically and have even completely changed places 4 or 5 times. But there is no fixed information about this; this is only proven by the structure of the Earth’s surface.
What will happen if the poles reverse today?
First, most GPS satellites will fail. What does this mean besides the loss of cellular communications? The fact that all airplanes, seaworthy ships and trains on autopilots can crash when colliding with each other.
Secondly, the Earth's ozone layer will suffer severe damage. This layer protects living beings from the harmful effects of solar and cosmic radiation. It is difficult to predict the negative consequences of this, because even its thinning has led to an increase in cancer patients.
Thirdly, there will be panic on Earth. It will fail cellular, electrical networks, the Internet and much more, which already forms the basis modern life. For example, people who will be in hospitals and maternity hospitals may die because of this.
The bottom line is that if the reversal does occur, then humanity will not die out, but will suffer greatly, and its number will decrease. But when this will happen is difficult to predict in advance. Forecasts no earlier than 10 years in advance will be more or less accurate.
Climate weapons, is it real?
There are also supporters of the theory that this new climate weapon is the weather.
Nikola Tesla developed similar theories in his works. He argued that when influencing the ionosphere, it is possible to control air flows and set their temperature.
America is suspected of this, an idea supported by the fact that, being a Serb, Tesla received US citizenship in 1881. He died in New York in 1941, and the archives of his works are classified to this day. Suspicions boil down to the fact that what is happening with the weather is controlled by the Americans using the HAARP system. This sabotage is intended to undermine the economies of Russia and Europe. The goal, naturally, is to seize power throughout the world.
But this theory has some inconsistencies. For example, if these are the doings of the Americans, then how do they allow such tornadoes and hurricanes on their territory? If they could control the weather, then North America there were no climatic anomalies. And they happen all over the globe. Every decade, hurricanes like Irma and Katrina claim thousands of American lives.
Climate change forecasts for the next decade
Many people are concerned about the question: is it just flowers that are happening with the weather in 2017. As scientists say, in 10 years, summer heat of 35 °C will become the norm for the central region of Eurasia. But in general, life there won’t change much.
But countries close to the equator will suffer more. Temperatures there will become so high that water shortages will worsen. Crops will suffer, primarily corn, and then other cereals.
How will this affect a person in 100 years?
If humanity does not reduce its industrial fervor, then by the end of the 21st century the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere will double. This will lead to the average temperature in central Russia being at least 30 °C. Everywhere on Earth there will be epidemics that will thrive in such a hot climate.
All this will lead to the melting of glaciers not only in Antarctica, but also in the Himalayas. This amount of melted ice will raise the level of the world's oceans and coastal cities will go under water.
How accurate these forecasts are depends on many factors, and it is possible that developed countries will come to their senses and understand that the lives of our children and grandchildren are too high a price to pay for lightning-fast progress.
If the worst predictions come true, will life remain on the planet?
The most interesting thing is that in the 21st century, starting from the birth of Christ, the 19th century was the coldest, and then it began to warm up. An increase in temperature in itself will not kill a person. The scary thing is that it happens so quickly, it is not so easy to adapt to what happens with the weather so quickly.
But if you look back and remember the level of science some 100 years ago, you can understand that what was considered impossible has become a reality. A person with such phenomenal intelligence is not so easy to kill. Humanity is like a virus for the planet, which is not so easy to get rid of. People adapt very quickly.
Even if we assume that the temperature and radioactive background on Earth will rise to a critical level, and all people and animals will not adapt and die out. But this does not mean that there will be no life on Earth. Flies are able to survive with radiation of 64,000 rads, scorpions are able to survive under the scorching sun and in the ice of the Antarctic, amoebas hibernate at unfavorable conditions and wake up when they are completed. Once upon a time the planet was ruled by dinosaurs, now humans, perhaps in the future it will be a different species. The end for humanity is far from the end for the Earth.