#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Due to climate change, the Atlantic Meridional Circulation (AMOC), which includes the Gulf Stream, may be disrupted between 2025 and 2095, with the most likely peak in 2050. This forecast was given by Sergey Muhametov, senior lecturer in the Moscow State University Geography Faculty’s Oceanology Department.
“It is unlikely that the Gulf Stream will completely stop or disappear. It will most likely begin to transfer most of its waters towards Portugal, that is, the southern branch will strengthen, and the northern branch, which is called the North Atlantic Current, the continuation of which approaches Murmansk, may weaken. Perhaps Murmansk will cease to be an ice-free port”, RIA Novosti quotes Sergey Muhametov.
At the same time, global warming continues to accelerate the Arctic glaciers melting. The Arctic Ocean ice cap area is shrinking at a serious pace. If the impact of the ocean on the atmosphere through the ice was difficult, now, without ice, the ocean will give up a huge amount of heat and the Arctic will warm even faster.
Previously, scientists predicted five years of heat in the Arctic. Climatologists believe that showers in the mountains of the Northern Hemisphere will now go more often. In July, abnormal thunderstorms hit Taimyr. This month was the hottest in the last 120 000 years, according to scientists who studied rings on tree cuts, coral reefs and samples of deep-sea sediments.
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Text: Denis Kozhevnikov, Photo: Olga Polyanskaya
