Russia may lose some of its land due to global warming and permafrost melting. This is stated in the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). DEA News.
Scientists studying anthropogenic emissions have concluded that in the most unfavorable scenario in the Arctic, it will warm by 10 °C by the end of the 21st century.
As Sergey Semenov, deputy head of one of the IPCC working groups, noted, Russia is a country with “significant warming”, this is particularly evident in the Arctic.
According to him, this has a positive side, because the possibility of navigating along the Northern Sea Route opens due to the melting of permafrost, but there is also the possibility of destruction of houses and infrastructure.
He emphasizes that even on the Northern Sea Route, everything is not so simple, because with warming, the amount of finely crushed ice increases, which in stormy weather acts “like sandpaper” on coastal infrastructure. “Coastal facilities are being destroyed, the coastline is physically depleted. “These are some territorial losses in favor of the sea, if not catastrophic,” says Semenov.
The scientist also added that the Russian Federation’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, which is about 60 billion tons per year, is small – only one in forty, but if not reduced this is a “national position of selfishness”. full of “negative consequences”.
Previously at the European Commission warned about food and water wars over ignoring climate change.