Up to 1.5 million UK properties face an increased risk of flooding by 2080 because of rising seas triggered by melting Arctic sea ice, MPs have found.
Governments later in the century will likely have to decide where they will build defences and where they will allow flooding to happen. Melting ice threatens to destabilise a current in the North Atlantic known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation , which provides the UK with its mild winters and stops it freezing over as happens at similar latitudes in Canada or Russia.
“At the moment, Arctic science is concentrated on its summer, with the Arctic winter – which could tell us an enormous amount about the weather – being under-studied. They also heard that political tensions with other countries are inhibiting scientific research, with Western researchers effectively locked out of half the Arctic region since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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