In the summer of 2022, a news reporter's live broadcast of wearing short-sleeved sleeves in the Arctic caused heated discussion. It is obvious to all to see that the earth has become hot, but everyone has never thought: Arctic is so hot?
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plus the previous Arctic glacier naturally melted, and the "corpse" , which was found 146,000 years ago, was found. People can't help but worry, is the earth already entering the evolution of the next era? Where will mankind go in the future?
Ancient creatures were excavated
Ancient corpse
This is a corpse of a bird, discovered by a team of treasure hunters in Arctic Circle .
The treasure hunter immediately contacted Russian experts after discovering the body because they did not know what safety risks this ancient corpse had, and they did not dare to discard it at will, nor did they dare to take it away.
Strange bird corpse
After a series of experimental analysis, experts judged that this is the " lark " from the ancient times, and it is the ancestor of almost all birds today.
They live in Ice Age , about 546,000 years ago. Because the geographical environment suddenly became cold at that time, many creatures were frozen to the permafrost layer.
Experts judged based on the body that the bird may have fallen from the sky to the ice lake because the weather was too cold, and then frozen in it.
For such a discovery, the expert is and is happy and worried about .
The continuous appearance of corpses provides samples for modern scientific research, which is conducive to scientists' reconstruction of history and evolutionary history of organisms at that time, but these emergent corpses of ancient organisms also seem to be warnings passed by the earth to humans.
Ancient mammoth mummy
Warning of the appearance of the corpse
Why is the lark's corpse a warning? Let’s take a look at such a real case and you will know the reason.
In the late last century, a rotten reindeer corpse was found in northern Russia, which was sealed for decades.
However, this body was not originally discovered by humans, and the discoverer was a group of reindeer.
The bacteria carried in the rotten reindeer carcasses all living bodies infected.
just spreads to ten, ten spreads to hundreds, about 2,000 reindeer were affected and the disease spreads to nearby villages.
For a moment, a large-scale anthrax broke out in the village.
Anthrax virus transmission
Patients initially developed symptoms such as eczema , chickenpox , and about 5 days later, they showed symptoms of poisoning such as nausea and vomiting, and finally died of neurasthenia.
The Russian Center for Health and Disease Control and Prevention urgently sent experts to the site. After investigation, the rotten reindeer carcass was found.
Fortunately, the local area is relatively remote and the virus is difficult to spread, and anthrax was quickly effectively controlled.
But in the process, humans also paid the harsh price of , and about 17 adult villagers and 1 child died in the local area.
So far, we still have no good means to cure anthrax.
can be seen. How much impact will the biological corpses buried in the Arctic have on humans? If the viruses are allowed to spread to human society, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Ancient wolf cub mummy
Anthrax is just a virus buried in one of the weaker ones.
Scientists estimate that there are about 11,000 viruses in the Arctic, including Black Death virus , which spread throughout Europe.
Some viruses can even be stored in html for 180,000 years.
Previously, experts discovered a virus from 80,000 years ago in a permafrost lake in Iceland. After laboratory analysis, the gene chain of this virus is very complete.
This means that once they are allowed to enter human society, a "bloody storm" will be set off.
In addition, experts have also discovered an oversized virus in the Arctic, which is 1,000 times the size of an ordinary virus, which is enough to be described as horror.
Experts said that the ancient virus is different from the current virus . The internal organizational structure of ancient viruses is more complex and difficult to overcome by people.
The various viruses that exist today are
Some ancient viruses are extremely barbaric in their transmission methods, and even scientists have not fully understood what their transmission mechanism is.
. These viruses are retained by organisms in glaciers and can be sealed for a long time.
Of course, the terrifying virus is just one of the concerns of humans, and there are many red flags brought by the Arctic glaciers.
Evolution and Disasters of the Earth
Speaking of the disasters and evolution of Earth civilization, we have to start with the emergence of organisms, because history is the best evidence.
About 500 million years ago, the Earth's single-cell organism evolved into the advanced marine life body , and the first advanced species on Earth appeared.
Single-cell biological legend
However, with the evolution of time, the ocean environment has changed and is no longer suitable for living organisms, resulting in a mass extinction of organisms on earth.
Things are far from over. The earth gave organisms about 100 million years of breathing time, and then another mass extinction occurred during the Basinian period 360 million years ago.
Scientists speculate that the reason is still the changes in the earth's environment .
From ancient times to modern times, organisms experienced 5 mass extinctions and countless small extinctions, each of which was a catastrophe for organisms.
This makes people have to be wary of whether environmental changes are related to the disappearance of organisms?
Although humans claim to be the master of the earth today, the earth has replaced several generations of overlords of in the process of evolution.
From Water Dragon Beast to dinosaurs, they were all the overlords of the past, spread all over the earth, but they still disappeared.
Shuilongmon
When we look at today's humans, it is inevitable that it is worrying. This kind of worry is not groundless, but it has its basis.
Earth evolution and glacier disasters
First of all, after the glacier melts, it will bring serious natural disasters to mankind. The most significant point is that it floods a large amount of land.
data shows that when the Greenland glacier melted at its peak, the glacier melted by one day as much as 6 billion tons.
This is just the "tip of the iceberg" of Arctic glaciers. The amount of glacier melting in the entire Arctic region is incalculable in one day.
In the environment of global climate warming , Antarctic glaciers are also unable to survive.
Melting glacier
Antarctic glacier melts faster than the Arctic. In addition, Antarctic is basically composed of glaciers. If all melt, its harm will be even worse than that of the Arctic.
Experts estimate that all the Antarctic glaciers melt, and the sea level of will rise by 66 meters .
What is this concept?
The flood in the movie "2012" is shocking. Although the sea level that rises by 66 meters will not evolve into the movie, it is still a piece of cake to flood a large amount of land.
2012 movie stills
At that time, Japan will become an ocean, and most parts of the southeastern coast of our country will be submerged.
What would happen if all the glaciers on the earth melted? It is hard for us to imagine how much homeland there will be left for humans to live in by then.
In addition, melting glaciers will also cause a shortage of freshwater resources.
Nowadays, most of the freshwater resources on the earth are sealed in glaciers . If it melts meaninglessly, it will undoubtedly be a huge loss for humans.
Global freshwater resources distribution is shown in the figure
When the local water circulation is not enough to provide human freshwater needs, humans will have conflicts over resources, causing international conflicts.
Overall, it seems that the melting of glaciers has such serious consequences, and it seems not an exaggeration to call it a biological extinction.
is different from other organisms on Earth. This time it is that can be controlled by . As long as each country cares for the environment and reduces carbon emissions, it can curb the accelerated trend of glacier melting.
plus the earth has the ability to repair itself. I believe that in the near future, the glacier areas of the two poles will become what they were like again.
Reducing carbon emissions is not only for ourselves, but also for future generations.
Carbon emissions comparison
Delivery a clean and stable earth to the next generation. Let me ask, have we really done it?
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