The Arctic heat wave broke another record. If climate warming triggers continuous precipitation, can humans bear it?

Global warming has become a commonplace topic. Just in the past few years, the earth's temperature has frequently broken records, which has to arouse our attention. Even the North Pole, which is known for its coldness, experienced extremely high temperatures just a few days after the summer solstice.

Recently, according to the data sent back by the Sentinel 3A and 3B satellites of the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program, Siberia is suffering from a heat wave, where the surface temperature almost reaches 35°C, and the hottest is Verkhoyansk town, where the temperature reached 48°C. It is worth noting that summer has just begun, and there are still more than two months to go, and the temperature may continue to hit new highs.

Looking at previous data, it was found that the coldest and hottest temperature records in the Arctic Circle were set by the town of Verkhoyansk, respectively -67.8°C and 37.8°C (set in 2020), and the temperature difference reached an astonishing 105.6°C. The frequent extreme temperatures in the Arctic Circle have also woken us up. The speed of global warming is accelerating. If it is not taken seriously, it may lead to disastrous consequences.

The heat wave caused by the high temperature has made the Arctic Circle extremely dry, which can easily cause wildfire disasters, which occur almost every year. Wildfires in the Arctic Circle will produce more carbon dioxide, leading to an increase in the greenhouse effect. In the year of 2020 alone, the fires in the Arctic Circle released about 250 million tons of carbon dioxide.

In addition, some permafrost layers in the Arctic are still melting at an accelerated rate, and some ancient bacteria and viruses that were frozen under the ice will also be rediscovered as the permafrost melts. No one knows that the recovery of these bacteria and viruses will bring benefits to human What are the consequences.

As global temperatures increase, that will certainly trigger more and more frequent rainfall. Historically, there was a record of 2 million years of continuous rainfall on the earth, which was called the Carnian flood event. The heavy rain that lasted for two million years led to the extinction of many low plants, causing a large number of herbivores to become extinct due to lack of food, and the entire ecosystem of the earth was affected. About 90% of the creatures became extinct due to this rainfall.

After the rain, tall trees occupied the earth's surface, ushering in the dinosaur era when dinosaurs flourished.

If the global warming intensifies, high temperature leads to frequent rainfall and triggers the Carnian flood event again, with the current strength of human beings, can they afford it?

If there is continuous rainfall on the earth, it will inevitably cause flood disasters, and many low-lying cities will be relocated as a whole, affecting some human life and production activities, but these are not the most important, the most important thing is the impact of continuous rainfall on plants. The flood event in the Carnian period led to the extinction of a large number of low plants and herbaceous plants. Human food crops happen to be low plants. Continuous rainfall will lead to the failure of global food crops. Human beings are faced with the dilemma of having no conventional food.

In addition, continuous rainfall can easily lead to an increase in the probability of disease outbreaks. After flooding into the building, it will make some items moldy and cause mold to affect air quality. People living in humid environments will also have a greatly increased prevalence of asthma and some respiratory diseases. .

As the rain continues, due to problems such as not being able to adapt to the environment, lack of food, medical hygiene, etc., the population of the earth will drop sharply, which will bring many unforeseen troubles to mankind, and may even cause human extinction in severe cases.