"Initially, no one cared about this disaster.
It's just a wildfire, a drought.
The extinction of a species, the disappearance of a city,
Until this disaster is relevant to everyone. ”
- "The Wandering Earth"
In 2020, it is really difficult and magical,
When the world is paying attention to the epidemic,
But I don't know, there is an even bigger crisis,
Quietly approaching humans little by little...
Summer temperatures are usually at 5-8 ° C in the Arctic,
Now it's soaring to 38°C.
Polar bears are facing extinction...
The antarctic covered by ice and snow all year round,
For the first time this year, the temperature exceeded 20 °C,
There was even blood-red snow,
Poor penguins can only stand on bare dirt;
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Glaciers around the world are shrinking rapidly,
Microbes and viruses that have been frozen for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years,
or will be released...
China's continuous floods,
Japanese high temperatures cause deaths,
Frequent fires in Siberia...
Countless disasters,
Like dominoes, one after another.
What's wrong with the world?
In 2020, can it still be good?
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The arctic maximum temperature soared to 38 °C,
Antarctic snow turns "blood red"!
Impression of the Arctic Circle,
It's cold all year round, covered in snow and ice
But I don't know when,
That has changed here.
Not long ago, the Norwegian Meteorological Agency reported that
Located in the Arctic Circle of Svalbard,
The temperature reached a record high, rising to 21.7°C!
(Temperatures in the region at this time of year are usually 5-8°C.) ）
On this island,
There is a global seed bank commonly known as the "Doomsday Seed Bank",
It collects seed samples from all over the world,
To prevent the extinction of agricultural crops as a result of certain global catastrophes.
But now, whether the seed bank will be affected by high temperatures,
It's still unknown.
Coincidentally
Located within the Arctic Circle
The small town of Verkhoyansk,
Last month reached a high temperature of 38 ° C,
This is the highest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle.
You know,
Verkhoyonsk is known as the cold pole of the Northern Hemisphere,
The exhaled breath in winter will immediately freeze,
The BBC has described the town as "as cold as Mars".
Today, it's hot enough to go down to the river to cool off!
It is conceivable that 38 ° C for the Arctic Circle,
How shocking,
Let's be aware of:
Global warming is no longer just a distant concept!
increase in temperature,
Let the Arctic sea ice recede quickly.
In Alaska,
Tourists traveling on cruises saw a terrifying scene,
A large glacier collapsed in an instant,
Stir up a splash.
Greenland, also in the Arctic Circle,
There have also been significant ice melting incidents recently,
The southern part of the ice sheet is melting at the fastest rate of the season.
▲Schematic diagram
Calendars for the past 40 years,
The area of sea ice in the Arctic Circle in summer has been reduced by nearly half.
This year's area has reached a record low.
Due to the disappearance of permafrost,
The Arctic is now even starting to turn green,
It looks beautiful, but the trend is very dangerous.
And on the other side of the North Pole, the South Pole,
Facing another disaster too!
In the first half of the year,
For the first time, the temperature in Antarctica exceeded the maximum temperature of 20 ° C...
Large glaciers melt hundreds of kilometers,
In 9 days, 1/5 of the snow in Antarctica was gone.
(Look at the space map issued by NASA in the United States is more intuitive)
It should have been a white and snowy Antarctica,
Now the ground is a strange red,
It looked like the earth was bleeding.
The air is still filled with sweet smells,
It smells like watermelon.
It looks beautiful and smells sweet
As everyone knows, this "beauty",
How many creatures will be destroyed.
It's not bloody,
Rather, it is a kind of "dormancy" in cold climates
Polar snow algae microorganisms are waking up.
They reproduce by absorbing heat,
The heat melts the snow water, and the snow water makes more snow algae wake up...
"Watermelon snow" also reduces the reflection of sunlight,
The emergence of large areas will exacerbate climate warming,
Accelerating the melting of glaciers.
And after the red snow,
Green snow was found in Antarctica.
And so on,
Antarctica, or will lose control!
This phenomenon does not only occur in the North and South Poles,
In early July,
Parts of the Precena Glacier in the Italian Alps,
Terrible pink snow was also found.
The earth is taking everything we have done to her,
Returned to us.
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And those who are at the forefront of this crisis,
It's the animals of the Arctic and Antarctic.
They are facing unprecedented difficulties.
Polar bears don't have ice floes and can't hunt seals.
They're hungry skinny,
But it doesn't know where to go.
I don't know where I can go.
The only thing that awaits them is death.
A paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change states:
By 2100, polar bears around the world could be nearly extinct.
And what's happening in the Arctic,
It doesn't just affect polar bears.
Instead, it affects hundreds of millions of people living in different parts of the world.
And the penguins on the other side,
Facing the same desperate situation.
The impression of the penguin is like this▼
They are carefree in the snow,
Rolling, selling cute...
© Figure worm
And now the penguins, it's like this
They lost the ice sheet,
You can only stand on bare dirt.
Muddy, tired...
And as the temperature rises,
Antarctic hat with penguins on which krill live,
Mass migration to the colder and deeper southern tip.
To look for these krill,
The penguins also began the "Long March".
But it's heart-wrenching that the long journey is long,
An ice peak, a great chasm,
Or a hunger, a lack of physical strength,
they can all take their lives.
Nowadays, the cap belt penguin population size,
It's been 75% since the last estimate!
There are media reports,
In a two-year period,
150,000 Adélie penguins have died.
And a recent new study in the United States found that
The largest emperor penguin we know,
Or it will become extinct by the end of this century.
▲ The emperor penguin mourns the dead cubs in a collective manner
It's hard to imagine, a few years later,
Our descendants speak of penguins,
Like we're talking about dinosaurs now,
They can only be known from museum specimens.
In addition to penguins and polar bears,
Other polar animals are also doomed.
In the Arctic, hundreds of thousands of walruses are forced to the brink of extinction.
In order to get living space, you can only migrate,
It was hard to climb the cliff, but the next second it was unfortunate to fall to his death.
On the beach under the cliffs,
Leaving behind the corpses of batches of walruses...
At the junction of the North Pacific and the Gulf of Alaska,
Because the warming of the climate has led to the crazy growth of many toxic algae substances,
The food chain in that area has been severely damaged.
In the vicinity of 18 seals died in one day,
There are 60 known dead seals in a month.
When the species on earth leave us one by one,
Can we humans really be left alone?
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These disasters are not far away,
It's happening all around us;
The weather you are accustomed to changing,
In fact, it is closely related to global warming!
Because of global warming,
Extreme weather is coming more frequently.
From mid-June,
Siberia and parts of Alaska,
The number and intensity of fires have increased,
It emits 59 million tons of carbon dioxide.
Japan continues to be hot,
57 deaths have been caused;
"Warm in winter and cool in summer" in Europe,
Already dying from the true fire of the three tastes;
And in China,
The frequency of extreme precipitation events has increased significantly in recent years,
This year is particularly serious.
Almost all the southern provinces,
all soaked in water,
Millions of people are lost...
Mankind, go on unbridled,
Soon, it will be on the road to extinction.
You may not know,
Glaciers all over the world are retreating at a very fast rate.
China's Tianshan No. 1 Glacier, from 2001 to the present,
In less than 20 years, the area has decreased by 11.7%.
the retreat of glaciers,
May release a frozen virus.
Ohio scientists in the Tibetan Plateau ice core sample,
Evidence of the presence of ancient viruses was found.
There are 28 new viruses.
And in the arctic soil,
There are also large amounts of mercury in existence,
After the permafrost thaws, this mercury also flows into the sea.
Eventually gathers into the fish and the soil,
It affects the health and safety of human beings.
In addition to mercury,
There are still many ancient viruses frozen in the permafrost layer of the Arctic.
Although tens of thousands of years have passed,
But the virus can still be revived quickly.
Global sea levels are rising rapidly.
From 1980 to 2019,
Sea level in coastal areas of China,
The rate of rise soon reached 3.4mm/year,
The speed is already above the global average.
Scientists predict that
Global sea levels will rise by 6 to 58 centimeters within this century.
China's Shanghai, Tianjin Binhai New Area, Guangzhou and other coastal areas,
all are threatened by rising sea levels.
Can you imagine?
This is what it looks like after the temperature rises by 4 degrees▼
(Renderings of Shanghai soaked in water)
Mumbai, India, Bangkok, Thailand,
Probably completely sunk in the next 30 years...
In the next 50 years, the southern region of Vietnam,
The homes of 20 million people, may all be submerged...
In 2050, there will be 300 million people in the world,
It will be affected by sea level rise.
In 2100, there will be 630 million earthlings,
affected by sea level rise,
The first to disappear is the Maldives.
What europe looks like after 60 meters of sea level rise
In this "never-ending" vicious circle,
In any case, human beings cannot stay out of it.
And the weak us,
Can be for the world, for humanity,
What do you do for yourself?
We may say more,
Including low-carbon life, do not use disposable consumer goods,
More by public transport and more.
Maybe the power of the individual seems insignificant,
but... Ten people, one hundred people, ten thousand people,
What about millions of individuals?!