As the global climate environment warms, the melting speed of Arctic glaciers continues to accelerate. The Arctic has successively dug up the corpses of prehistoric organisms , which makes humans feel uneasy.
Wooled rhinoceros
Why do they feel uneasy? Could it be that the Pandora's box on Earth was opened?
Prehistoric creature corpse
Previously, people found a corpse of little wolf cub in the melting glacier. It was preserved very well, only a small amount of hair was missing, like a sleeping puppy.
According to scientists' tests, this little wolf cub is only 3 months old and lives in the Ice Age of 7,000 years ago.
Its death was also very sudden. Perhaps it was during the migration, it accidentally fell into the permafrost layer of the glacier that was frozen at the bottom of the lake.
Wolf cub body
If it weren't for the melting of the Arctic glaciers, it would not have been possible for people to dig out such a well-preserved prehistoric creature.
Coincidentally, during the search process, the Arctic treasure hunter accidentally discovered a rotten frozen bird .
The appearance characteristics of this bird are different from their perceptions, so the treasure hunter took the corpse back and wanted to sell it for a good price.
Finally, the frozen bird was acquired by a European biology institute, and scientists tested the genes of the frozen bird. The
test results show that this bird is the ancestor of " lark " and lived about 40,000 years ago.
Lark Mummy
It lives in the extreme circle area in northern Russia. As the climate environment changes, the lark is frozen in it.
In fact, as early as 1999, someone found a corpse of an mammoth .
It is preserved very completely, but it is a little shriveled compared to the living thing, and it is quite valuable.
Mammoth Mummy
Scientists speculate that the death of this young elephant was suffocated to death while drinking water, and was then covered with snow, and had been mummified, but its internal organs were intact.
There are many prehistoric biological remains found in Arctic Circle . Many of them have high integrity and are of great scientific research value.
For scientists, this should be a blessing, but why did they turn joy into sorrow?
The symbol of disaster
Because, the frequent appearance of the remains of these prehistoric creatures has brought a signal to mankind: Arctic glaciers are melting faster !
Many treasure hunters who search for mammoth ivory in Arctic glaciers for sale also appeared, saying that since they started this job, they have found that the area of glaciers in the Arctic has been getting smaller and the areas that can be explored every year are gradually expanding, which gives them more opportunities to search for ivory.
However, for this group of treasure hunters, the melting of the Arctic glaciers also made them feel mixed .
The melting speed of glaciers is unacceptable
Because a large number of glaciers melting is definitely harmful to humans but not beneficial. What exactly is the reason for
that breaks the frozen state of the Arctic Circle? This requires asking what unscrupulous behaviors have been done by human beings over the past few decades.
Pandora's Magic Box opened by humans
Since Industrial Revolution , machines have replaced manual labor and energy has been placed in an important position by people.
, especially , after the second industrial revolution , human technology has made rapid progress, and various mechanical devices are dazzling. People have a greater demand for energy. Energy is wealth, and everyone is shocked by interests. How exactly do these energy sources come about?
In modern times, the most mainstream way for people to obtain energy is to burn coal, but burning coal will produce a large amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas .
Steam engine principle
With the destruction of forests by humans, the coverage of the earth's vegetation continues to decrease, and the ability of plants to absorb greenhouse gas is also weakening.
A large amount of greenhouse gases cannot be converted, so they accumulate in the atmosphere, increasing the earth's greenhouse effect .
On the other hand, human production and life are also producing a large amount of greenhouse gases, such as air conditioners, refrigerators, etc.
Sadly, known as the Lung of Earth Amazon Forest has become the number one location for greenhouse gas emissions.
The reason is that people are active in the oxygen-filled rainforest, which can easily cause a small Mars to induce overwhelming and difficult to destroy fires, and trees produce various greenhouse gases after burning.
Fires devastated Amazon rainforests
Data statistics show that the total greenhouse gas displacement in 2019 was about 59 billion tons, while Amazon forests emit 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year, which has exceeded the annual carbon dioxide absorption of Amazon forests.
shows that the effect of forests on greenhouse gases is no longer significant, and the trend of global environmental warming is difficult to reverse.
Greenhouse effect leads to global warming
Under the influence of the overall environment, the melting volume of glaciers in the two poles is growing at an astonishing rate.
In 2019, CNBC TV reported that Greenland glacier melting in one day reached 12 billion tons , setting a new historical record.
Some giant glaciers in Antarctica are already drifting, and a large amount of fresh water merges into the ocean, causing the losses to be immeasurable.
Human beings are using their own hands to open the Pandora's box on the earth.
"Devils" in the magic box
First of all, melting glaciers will cause losses to human freshwater resources.
At present, the earth's freshwater resources only account for 2.7% of the total water resources, and rivers, lakes and other surface water sources account for a smaller proportion. 68.7% of freshwater is buried in glaciers and cannot be effectively utilized.
Freshwater is an extremely precious resource
Therefore, the melting of every glacier is a waste of freshwater.
data shows that in the summer of the Arctic, the average daily glacier melting is around 16 billion tons of , while the daily freshwater demand for each person is about 2 to 3 liters.
The world's population is calculated based on 7.5 billion people, and the fresh water people need only need between 15 million to 22 million tons per day.
Compared with this, the loss of freshwater from glaciers is really heartbreaking. If all the lost freshwater is used, there will be no water shortage for a long time.
Everyone should feel sorry for this
Unfortunately, due to technical and cost factors, humans cannot do it.
Secondly, melting glaciers will bring devastating disasters to coastal areas .
Since global climate warms , the rate of sea level rise of is about 0.1 to 0.15 meters per centenary. This value has shown explosive growth as human activities increase.
Imagine sea level rise
2015 NASA said that in the next 300 years, sea level will rise by 1 meter, which is an inevitable trend.
In 2021, the rising speed of sea level hit a record high of .
Founder the root, the melting of glaciers on both poles has brought a lot of water to the ocean, causing the rising trend of sea level to accelerate.
According to scientists' calculations, after all glaciers in the north and south poles melt, the sea level will rise by 70 meters.
At that time, coastal cities will be completely submerged, many islands will no longer exist, and a large amount of seawater will flow backwards to , causing salinization hazards to the land.
Finally, the arctic glaciers sealed not only ancient animals, but also primitive virus .
These viruses have diverse types and strong vitality. Even if they are sealed in the frozen soil for tens of thousands of years, their gene chains are still intact.
Gene chain structure
Once these viruses are released, the consequences will be unimaginable .
Previously, a small village in Russia dug out an reindeer body with the anthrax virus. The virus quickly spread, killing thousands of reindeer.
After the virus spread to the villagers, it induces various symptoms. A little boy unfortunately died in the disease caused by the virus.
Fortunately, the mountain village is remote and the virus has not spread farther away.
spread of anthrax virus
Overall, glacier melting brings great disasters to mankind. Today, when the climate and environment are gradually changing, human beings have the responsibility to do what they can with .
Of course, global warming is an irreversible trend. What we need to do is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make the earth as less hot as possible.
