The strongest over the past half-century is preparing to flood neighboring Murmansk oblast Lapland. The authorities of the Finnish polar region warn of a possible evacuation of residents of the capital region, the town of Rovaniemi, where the most snow over the last 60 years of winter and sudden warming began flooding. One of the highest on Earth, the amplitudes of the temperature deviations, now and in Siberia. It is warmer by three degrees on average. And floods, according to scientists, is not the only threat. When thawing the soil emit greenhouse gases, which for centuries had been frozen in the polar latitudes.
Including the surroundings of the Finnish city of kittilä local residents have not seen. This winter in Lapland, the snow was two times more than usual. But now Santa Claus is resting, and winter record backfired in the summer.
“It is not normal, the water is 3-4 feet higher than usual” — says a local resident.
heat a little the whole of Northern Europe. And, perhaps, is the alternation — “lots of snow and lots of water” — now a long time. Global warming is when the weather starts to get nervous.
“every five years, a decade will increase the number of extreme events, and the number of “normal” weather will decrease”, — said Roman Vilfand, scientific Director of the hydrometeorological center of the Russian Federation.
the Rain struck Moscow and the may beating all records — just the consequence of the weather pendulum. This spring the flood was even in Kazakhstan. The rains are becoming more unpredictable.
“Changing a function of precipitation. Lengthened periods. Instead of 5-10 days without rain, it becomes 20 days. Also extended periods with rainfall,” says Alexander Chernokulsky, senior researcher, Institute of atmospheric physics named after A. M. Obukhov of RAS.
Periods of abnormal droughts are now more, and this means that forest fires will happen more often. Satellites have shown that, for example, the smoke AUD fire circled the entire Earth. And the burning last summer of the Russian taiga can affect the melting of the Arctic ice, where the ships soon will be walking all year round, and frost often gives people the remains of mammoths.
“of Course, the fire, if you speak about them, of course there will be a huge impact to have. Especially catastrophic fires, when a large amount of aerosol released”, — said Alexander Makarov, Director of the Arctic and Antarctic research Institute.
the Changing climate is causing man-made disasters. So in Norilsk to destroy the tank with diesel fuel and river Barn — a tributary of the Pechora — red. Just piles for this store once hammered into the permafrost.
it seems necessary to Reconsider almost all of the seemingly eternal rule.
“to Expand, fortifying the coast, to do better storm sewers. Work conditioning systems, where the expected heat wave. And so on. It’s called adapting to future climate change” — lists Vladimir Semenov, Deputy Director of the Institute of atmospheric physics named after A. A. Obukhov of RAS.
Weather statistics of the last 200 years outdated. Collect new — 200 years — no time. The future will have to model and predict.
once upon a time in Moscow there were floods. The memory of the powerful remained at Yakimanskaya embankment. That’s the mark of 12 years ago the water rose to nine meters.
But then there was built a system of locks, canals, water reservoirs and the threat receded. Mankind wants to or not, but the climate continues to change and people, just as in the Moscow builders have to answer calls of nature.
