A very hot summer will become the norm
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Unusually hot summer in recent years has become a familiar thing, but scientists say that the abnormally high temperatures in the summer will become a common occurrence by 2025. Such conclusions were made by experts from the National University (Australia).
The change in our climate regime has become inevitable, scientists believe, and carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere have led to this. Sophie Lewis, the head of the research team, noted that even if it was possible to completely stop the production activities that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions, then global climate change will happen after 10 years.
Experts emphasize that human activity on the planet earth has already led to irreparable changes and soon new temperature standards will be set, which, unfortunately, not everyone will be able to survive. Presumably this will happen after about 2035. Professor Lewis noted that in the future for the summer months, high temperatures (up to 50 ° C), forest fires, poor health caused by heat, etc., will be quite normal .
But according to the calculations of the supercomputer, a sharp change in weather conditions will not occur throughout the globe, changes will affect only some regions, in others the climate will change at a slower pace and the final shift will not occur until the year 2100.
French experts also made their predictions about the future climate of the planet. In their view, European resorts in the future will become deserts, and this will lead to nothing more than global warming. According to the forecasts of the French, this will happen only at the end of the XXI century and if now mankind does not attempt to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, then a worldwide catastrophe can not be avoided.
A new forecast cataclysm from French specialists is one of many made by other scientific groups. By the way, in other forecasts, scientists predict not only the appearance of a desert in the place of Europe, but the flooding of parts of the continents.
But many experts believe that climate change is affected not only by human activities, the main role in this is played by cyclical climate fluctuations, and in the future there will be a global cooling. It is for this reason that a number of specialists are sure that financing funds to combat warming is a serious mistake. Disputes in the scientific community on this issue do not stop, but the public is already worried about gloomy scenarios of universal catastrophes.
Forecast scientists will be correct if the average temperature of the earth will continue to grow. In this case, the southern European forests will move north, and in the south they will be replaced by shrubs. Save the ecosystem of Europe will succeed in the event that it turns out that the average annual temperature of the earth will increase no more than 1.5 0 C.
According to experts, changes will occur not only in Europe, but also in the southwestern United States. This year, fires in the forests in the west of the United States have broken all records, and in the past forest fires left their mark in the newest history of America, destroying more than 40 thousand square kilometers of territories.
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