Superheated Planet
The climate is changing, it is obvious. Someone suffering from it, someone wins. Sometimes both - with a short break. One couple from Switzerland rented Alpine hotel on the hillside Ajger. As the glacier covering it thaws, the eastern edge of the mountains descend downward into the valley. Soon the hotel building has literally hung over a precipice... Then the couple rented another mountain refuge above the slope - and succeeded. Tourists go there droves - from this point of a view of the piece of rock the size of 2 million cubic meters. From time to time he settles down with a crash.
Alpine glaciers (almost all) retreating for several decades. During the summer, they lose more weight than they can build up in the winter. Ice is no longer constrains the slopes and rocks crumble. The Swiss Ministry of the Environment has made even has made a map showing the dangerous. Climatologists say that by the end of the XXI century 80% of Alpine glaciers disappear. Maybe in the Alps in general, there will be no ice.
The rapid melting of ice is observed in the higher and cold mountains - for example, in the Andes. In the Himalayas, south-west China area of glaciers in the last 30 years has decreased by 21%. Famous symbol of Africa - Mount Kilimanjaro, the height of almost 6000 meters - loses his snow.
Plants and animals change their familiar surroundings. Nobody is not particularly surprising that in the North Sea in the nets of the fishermen have increasingly come across the Mediterranean sea bream. In the Mediterranean, there were also new residents. Along the coast of Mallorca divers are at risk to encounter reef sharks, which usually resides in the Maldives and the coast of Australia. Now caught in the Mediterranean Sea and other "migrants from the south".
If the water got warmer, all this exoticism floating in the Mediterranean never would have seen. Over the past 10 years the temperature of surface waters of the Mediterranean has grown at 2-4 ° C. Besides its water becomes saltier because evaporates faster than replenished.
Changing and flora. Climatologists predict that the usual composition of European forests will change. Spruce and fir due to dryness and the temperature drop will feel bad on the plains, and their numbers will inevitably decline. And for the pines, oaks, or drought-resistant acacia conditions, by contrast, are favorable. Environmentalists believe that more than half of plant species in Central Europe will be threatened - especially suffer mountain flora.
"Dehydration" Europe is fraught with many consequences ...