Climate change could make a huge part of Russia's frozen landscape habitable by 2080 if global warming continues on its current trajectory. By examining how Siberia will respond to different warming scenarios, researchers from the Russia's Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center, and the U.S. National Institute of Aerospace, were able to determine how much more of the landscape would become suitable for human occupation.
Much of the land is made up of permafrost. This is soil that, in some cases, has been frozen for thousands of years. Should global temperatures increase, this land could thaw making it more suitable for activities such as agriculture., researchers used climate scenarios set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , including mild and extreme changes.
Under the extreme climate change, they estimate that permafrost coverage in the region could drop from 65 percent down to 40 percent by the 2080s, vastly expanding the land that could be occupied by humans. Even under mild climate change, they estimate a five-fold increase in the potential human capacity.
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2080’s. At the rate we are going a doubt we are here in 2030. The time to repent is now.
And methane will be leaking out of the Russian permafrost accelerating climate change.
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