Besides ancient viruses, how many disasters are waiting for mankind?

The high temperature in the Arctic seems to be setting a new record. The town of Vikoyansk in Siberia, Russia, which just entered the early summer, reached an unprecedented high temperature of 38℃ on June 20, and this record is also the highest temperature record in the world! The Internet has begun to spread wildly, and high temperature will release the ancient virus of Arctic tundra, which is a serious threat to mankind!

Why is the high temperature in the Arctic Circle related to viruses?

Vikoyansk is a small town located in the northeast of Siberia with a latitude of 67.5 degrees, about 4,660 kilometers northeast of Moscow. This is one of the coldest areas in the world in winter, with the lowest temperature reaching MINUS 50℃ and the average temperature in summer and June around 20℃, which is really rare! The continuous high temperature has also led to a large area of forest fires, and a large area of forest has been burned!

High temperature is high temperature, how can it be related to the virus?

The permafrost near the Arctic Circle is the largest refrigerator on earth. Since the ivory trade was banned, Russian diggers often dig mammoth ivory in permafrost. In addition to the well-preserved ivory, they can also dig up the remains of mammoths that have not been thawed, and even the remains of other animals that are extremely well preserved. These animals died for various reasons tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years ago and were sealed in permafrost!

2065438+September 2008, two Russian diggers discovered this well-preserved dark lark, which lived about 46,000 years ago. Except for its feathers stained with mud, it looks like it died yesterday!

In 20 19, a canine was found in the melting permafrost of Siberia. It looks like a wolf, not a wolf, but a dog, not a dog. It was identified that this animal got stuck in the mire for unknown reasons about 14300 years ago and was finally covered by permafrost!

20 18 found a new type in the frozen soil of Kotlin Island in Siberia. Mini mammoth? After expert appraisal, it was found that this body has a history of more than 5,000 years!

Russian scientists found out? Immortal bacteria?

Anatoly of Moscow State University in 2009? Dr Blau Chikov found an immortal bacterium in the brain of a mammoth in the tundra of Saha, Siberia and Tovagola (Mammoth Mountain) in Ma Meng, China. Dr Blau found that fruit flies and mice injected with this bacterium not only did not die, but also prolonged their life span and even restored their fertility!

Moreover, doctors also found that local people generally live long lives. The crazy doctor injected himself with this bacterium on 20 15. Two years later, the doctor felt stronger, more energetic and not tired after working for a long time! However, no double-blind trial proved that it was really effective, but the doctor injected Manus, a 45-year-old model in Munich, Germany, with the bacteria on 20 17!

Manus, a 45-year-old model from Munich.

Destructive virus in permafrost zone

Murphy's law tells us that if there is a possibility that something will go bad, then 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. This is the first time that it infected marine mammals between 2004 and 2009. Plague fever virus? Before that outbreak, the temperature in the Arctic rose abnormally. Related research shows that there is a direct relationship between the two, because there is an earlier outbreak, which is also an abnormal warming!

2065438+From July to August, 2006, the carcasses of animals carrying pathogens were frozen in the permafrost of Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia, Russia, and Bacillus anthracis flowed into the water body, resulting in the infection and death of more than 2,300 reindeer nearby. 72 local people have been sent to hospital for treatment, including 4 1 child and 0/boy who died!

Besides viruses, what other disasters are waiting for us?

With the global warming, these hidden dangers are increasing year by year, and the future ice-free Arctic summer will make mankind face a more embarrassing situation. In addition to the ecological collapse of the Beijing ice sheet, polar bears are homeless and may even become extinct. Of course, the Arctic is not only home to polar bears, but also to countless animals. The ecological disaster in the future is unimaginable!

The temperature difference is large, and the extreme climate is getting crazier every year.

A week ago, on the evening of June 16, the drama in northern Greece was hit by a severe hail. In a short time, the urban roads were covered with ice hockey, and the deepest part was 40 cm thick. The local city government had to use an excavator to deal with it! This is actually rare in Europe with a Mediterranean climate.

But what is even rarer is the extremely hot weather from June to July in 2065438+2009. The highest temperature is as high as 46℃, which directly makes Europeans who are used to the general climate of Mediterranean paradise dumbfounded, and it is too late to install air conditioners or the installation cost is too high to afford. Europeans who are crazy about heat have emptied the electric fans in the shopping malls in order to get some shade in the hot season!

The heat wave distribution in Europe on July 25th, 20 19.

On October 20 19, 165438+ 10, rare snowstorms hit many places in Europe, which led to the closure of the main Spanish 15 expressway and the obstruction of 50 roads in expressway. The snowstorm in the mountains of northern Italy caused houses to be buried and traffic to be blocked. The snowstorm in southeastern France also paralyzed the local railway system, and millions of people were affected by power outages!

20 19 European blizzard

20 19 On June 30th, a rare hail disaster occurred in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. In the weather as high as 3 1 celsius, the whole city is almost submerged by hail, and the hail thickness in many areas reaches1.8-2m!

Mountain fires in Australia occurred on165438+1October 1 (a),165438+1October 14 (b), 65438+February 5 (c

Are you out of your mind?

The permanent change of global ocean current, the competition for fishery resources

The global warming trend is not only the weather, but also the redistribution of fishery resources. The Mexican warm current and the North Atlantic warm current will go deep into the Arctic, which will lead to two results. First, the Arctic ice sheet will melt faster, and second, the fishery resources following the warm current will go deeper into the Arctic, so the traditional fishing rights will be redistributed!

Friends who are familiar with the cold war should know the origin of this incident. Although no war broke out under the mediation of NATO and the United States, it is really uncertain whether there will be a war because of fishing when marine resources are exhausted in the future (aquaculture only accounts for 40% of the demand)!

80% of marine resources are threatened by bleaching of marine corals.

Another acute problem of global temperature rise is that ocean acidification and temperature rise seem to be no big problem, but corals that are extremely sensitive to water temperature may die. Coral bleaching was discovered not long ago, but it is spreading rapidly. The shallow water around tropical coral reefs is the warmest water in the ocean. Among marine fish, there are more than 1/3 species, and most economic fish live around coral reefs. If coral dies, the coral reef ecology will deteriorate or even disappear, and it is hard for us to imagine how serious the consequences will be!

Because a large part of human protein comes from the ocean, the wall is pushed down by everyone, and it was not built in a day. Therefore, when we have this problem, nature has been suffering silently for a long time. Only when we reach the critical state of ecological balance will many evil consequences begin to appear one by one, and now it is just the beginning!