In addition to ancient viruses, how many disasters are waiting for mankind?
The high temperatures in the Arctic seem to be setting new records. A small town in the Arctic Circle that has just entered early summer: the small town of Vikoyansk in Siberia, Russia, reached an unprecedented high temperature of 38°C on June 20. At the same time, this record It is also the northernmost high temperature record in the world! Rumors have begun to spread on the Internet that high temperatures will release ancient viruses in the Arctic tundra, and humans will be seriously threatened by them!
Why are high temperatures in the Arctic Circle related to viruses?
Vykoyansk is a small town in northeastern Siberia, with a latitude of 67.5 degrees and about 4,660 kilometers northeast of Moscow. It is one of the coldest areas in the world in winter, with the lowest temperature reaching minus 50°C. , the average summer temperature in June is around 20℃, and this 38℃ is really rare! The continuous high temperatures also led to large-scale forest fires, and large areas of forests were burned!
High temperature is high temperature, how come it has anything to do with viruses?
The permafrost zone near the Arctic Circle is the largest refrigerator on earth. Since the ivory trade was banned, Russian digging parties have often dug mammoth tusks in the permafrost zone. In addition to the well-preserved ivory You can also dig out mammoth carcasses that have not yet thawed, and even extremely well-preserved carcasses of other animals. These animals died for various reasons tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years ago and were sealed in the permafrost!
In September 2018, two Russian diggers discovered this well-preserved dark lark, which lived about 46,000 years ago. Except for the feathers being stained with mud, it looked like Just like he died yesterday!
In 2019, a canine was discovered in the melting tundra of Siberia. It looks like a wolf but not a wolf, and looks like a dog but not a dog. It was determined that this animal fell into the mud for unknown reasons about 14,300 years ago. Finally, it was covered by frozen soil!
In 2018, the carcass of a new type of "miniature mammoth" was discovered in the permafrost of Kotelny Island in Siberia. Experts identified it and found that it is more than 5,000 years old!
Russian scientists discovered "immortal bacteria"
In 2009, Dr. Anatoly Brauchkov of Moscow State University discovered it in Mamun, Sakhalin, Siberia. An immortal bacterium was discovered in the brain of a mammoth in the tundra of Towagola (Mammoth Mountain), and doctors found that fruit flies and mice injected with this bacterium not only survived, but also extended their lifespan , and even restored fertility!
And the doctor also found that local people generally live longer. The crazy doctor injected this bacteria into his body in 2015. In the next two years, the doctor felt stronger and more energetic, and he did not work long hours. Tired! However, there is no double-blind trial showing that it is indeed effective, but the doctor also injected this bacteria into the body of 45-year-old model Manush in Munich, Germany in 2017!
Manush, a 45-year-old model in Munich, Germany
A devastating virus that appears in the tundra
Murphy's law tells us that if something has If there is a possibility of it getting worse, then it will happen no matter how small the possibility is. The ancient virus we have been worried about has actually broken out several times, but it is still controllable so far. The first time was from 2004 to 2009. Marine mammals were infected with distemper virus in 2011. The Arctic temperatures before that outbreak were abnormally high. Related studies have shown that there is a direct relationship between the two, because there was an earlier outbreak, which was also an abnormal temperature rise!
From July to August 2016, more than 2,300 reindeer in the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia, Russia, were infected and died due to the thaw of animal carcasses containing bacteria in the permafrost zone and the flow of Bacillus anthracis into the water bodies. 72 people have been sent to hospital for treatment, including 41 children, and one boy died!
In addition to viruses, what other disasters are waiting for us?
With global warming, these hidden dangers are increasing year by year. In the future, ice-free Arctic summers will make humans face an even more embarrassing situation. In addition to the ecological collapse of Beijing’s ice sheets, polar bears are homeless. It may even become extinct. Of course, the Arctic is not only polar bears, but also home to countless animals. The ecological disasters we will face in the future are unimaginable!
High temperature difference, extreme weather becomes crazier every year
A week ago on the evening of June 16, Drama in northern Greece was hit by extremely large hail. In a short period of time, urban roads were covered with ice balls, and the deepest part was 40 centimeters thick. The local municipal government had to use excavators to deal with it! This is actually rare in Europe with a Mediterranean climate.
But what is even rarer is the extreme high temperature weather that occurred from June to July 2019, with a maximum of 46°C, which directly dumbfounded Europeans who are used to the Mediterranean paradise climate, and there is no time to install air conditioners or install them. Too high to install, Europeans who are crazy about the heat have evacuated the fans in shopping malls in order to get some shade during the hot season!
Distribution of heat waves in Europe on July 25, 2019
In November 2019, many places in Europe encountered rare heavy snowfalls, causing 15 major highways in Spain to be closed, and another 50 highways to be blocked. Highway traffic was blocked, and heavy snowfall in the mountains of northern Italy buried houses and blocked traffic.
Southeastern France was hit by a blizzard. The blizzard also paralyzed the local railway system. Millions of people were affected by power outages due to the blizzard!
2019 European Blizzard
On June 30, 2019, a rare hailstorm occurred in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, with temperatures as high as 31 degrees Celsius. There was a huge hailstorm, and the entire city was almost submerged by a hailstorm. The hailstones in many areas were as thick as 1.8-2M!
The distribution of wildfires in Australia on November 1 (a), November 14 (b), December 5 (c), and December 26 (d).
Are you crazy?
Permanent changes in global ocean currents and competition for fishery resources
In addition to weather, the trend of global warming also involves the redistribution of fishery resources. The Mexican Warm Current and the North Atlantic Warm Current will penetrate deeper into the Arctic. This will lead to two results. The first is that the Arctic ice cap will melt at an accelerated rate. The second is that the fishery resources following the warm current will also penetrate deep into the Arctic. Then the traditional fishing rights and sea areas will be redistributed!
Friends who are familiar with the Cod War should know the origin of this matter. Although no war broke out due to the mediation of NATO and the United States, in the future when marine resources are facing depletion (aquaculture only accounts for 40% of demand), It’s not sure whether a war will break out over fishing!
Marine coral bleaching, 80% of marine resources are threatened
Another acute problem caused by rising global temperatures is ocean acidification and rising temperatures. It may not seem like a big problem, but for Corals that are extremely sensitive to water temperatures can die. Coral bleaching is new but spreading rapidly, and the shallow waters around tropical reefs are some of the warmest in the ocean.
More than 1/3 of the species of marine fish live, and most economic fish live in areas around coral reefs. If the corals die and the coral reef ecology deteriorates or even disappears, we can hardly imagine how serious the consequences will be!
Because a large part of human protein source comes from the ocean, and the wall is broken by everyone, and the three feet of ice does not freeze in a day, so when we face this problem, nature has been silently enduring it for a long time, and only when it comes to ecological In the critical state of balance, various evil consequences will begin to appear one by one, and now it is just the beginning!