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Usually an ice sheet tends to settle over the Laptev Sea in Siberia in autumn.
We are now approaching November by leaps and bounds, and for the first time, the water has yet to freeze.
Writes The Guardian, who has spoken with Colorado State University researcher Zachary Labe.
– Never before has such an absence of ice happened. Without a systematic reduction in climate emissions, we face ice-free summers, Labe writes in a statement to the newspaper.
– A big cry for help.
Warns
According to the researchers, the water has not started to freeze due to the abnormally hot summer and autumn in northern Russia.
Sea temperatures in the area have risen five degrees above average, according to the newspaper.
2020 has been an unusually hot year and this summer new heat records were set in Siberia. Then reports of record heat and wildfires loomed.
– Our first summer without ice
And the problems caused by the hot summer seem to continue.
The researcher now warns of a domino effect that can affect the polar zones.
– 2020 is another year that corresponds to a rapidly changing Arctic. Without a systematic reduction in climate emissions, the probability of our first ice-free summer will continue to increase, the researcher writes to The Guardian.
38 degrees in Siberia: – Alarming
– frustrating
Physicist Stefan Hendricks of the Alfred Wegener Institute is also concerned about the current situation.
– It’s more frustrating than shocking. We have warned about this for a long time, but authorities have responded little to us, Hendricks told the newspaper.
The Laptev Sea is called the “birthplace of ice”. According to the newspaper, the ice forms along the Siberian coast during the fall, before drifting towards Framstedet between Svalbard and Greenland.
– It can only get worse
Temperatures in Arctic regions are rising faster because ocean currents brought heat to the poles and ice and snow melted. As a result, Russian cities in the Arctic experienced quite extraordinary temperatures this summer.
– What is happening now is a consequence of the past and the emissions of the industry. What will happen here in the next 40 years has already been decided by what happened. We can’t do anything about it. So we should also be concerned: it can only get worse, Thomas Smith of the London School of Economics told Reuters at the time.
