The place of residence of millions of people will go under water?
There is a real threat that 230 million people will be forced to emigrate due to climate change. In the magazine “Communications Earth and Environment” a study was published, which shows that if the world maintains the current level of climate warming of 1.2 degrees C. “It will probably generate a few meters of sea level growth in the upcoming centuries, causing extensive losses and damage to the coastal population” – we read in the application. Increasing the water level will be a threat to the aforementioned group of people who live below 1 meter above sea level.
It is worse than the scientists assumed
Scientists set themselves the goal of determining the “safe limit” of warming, which could save the Antarctica ice cover and Greenland. Unfortunately, the purpose set during the Paris Agreement to receive insulation below 1.5 degrees C. above the pre -industrial period will not stop this phenomenon. “To avoid this, a global average temperature is needed lower than the current and closer 1 degree C. above the pre -industrial period. Perhaps even lower, but further work is urgent to determine the safe limit for ice covers ” – we read in the study. Earlier it was estimated that in order for the Greenland ice cover to be destabilized, the temperature would have to rise by about 3 degrees of Celsius.
Threat to great migration
It was calculated that since the 1990s, the amount of ice that the glaciers lost increased four times. They currently lose about 370 billion tons a year. And they still have reserves. In total they accumulate enough sweet water to Raise the global sea level by about 65 meters. If it happened, it would be great catastrophe. By the end of the century, the water level in the sea can increase by about 1 cm. Jonathan Bamber, the author of the study, forecasts that this pace will end with “mass migration, on a scale that we have not seen since the times of modern civilization.”
Sources: “Communications Earth and Environment“, CNN