Bogazici University Climate Change Research Center Director Levent Kurnaz said that a part of Istanbul will be flooded in the future due to the rising of the Marmara Sea. Agency reports DHA.
The scientist noted that in the future, the level of the world ocean will rise due to the melting of glaciers.
Later, according to estimates, the Marmara Sea will rise at least 50 cm in the middle of the 21st century, as a result of which there will be villas on the shores of the Bosphorus and in the Kadıköy region. under water.
Kurnaz also emphasized that the entrance to Kadıköy station is below sea level, so it may be flooded before 2050. The scientist added that walls should be built to protect Dolmabahçe and Çırağan palaces and other cultural areas.
Previously, he called his name a climatologist, an associate professor at the KFU Agrotechnological Academy. Vernadsky Vladimir Ryabov warnedIf the average temperature on Earth increases by more than one and a half degrees in the next 30 years, humanity expects catastrophic natural changes.