A mountain is sinking, the natural phenomenon that worries Europe

Reports are disheartening. The concern grows. At Europe were alarmed by notifications from Sweden: the go up Kebnekaise it sinks more and more. What is happening precisely? Every year, the mountain loses more and more height.

This is a natural phenomenon what has to do with the serious consequences caused by climate change in the world, created by man. Annually, the Mount Kebnekaise shrinks at least 2 meters. Considering that the ice is melting faster and faster, ceased to be Sweden’s highest peak.

How tall was Mount Kebnekaise before it lost height due to climate change

Until before the 1990s, the go up Kebnekaise It was 2120 meters high. However, and unfortunately, today it only reaches an altitude of 2,099 meters, a detail that causes great concern among the inhabitants of the region.

Sweden’s last glacier is about to disappear

As if that wasn’t enough, heScientists in the region have warned that the country’s last glacier is on the verge of disappearing, therefore the crisis worsens. This was indicated by studies conducted by Series A, Physical Geography. The Sydtoppen Glacier, which is close to go up Kebnekaise, is affected by climate change and global warming.

The other pandemic: they estimate that 83 million people will die from the effects of climate change

A new study has established how many future lives will be lost or saved, depending on whether we increase or decrease our current carbon emissions. The author, R. Daniel Bressler, doctoral student at the Columbia University Earth Institute, saw a significant gap in current estimates of the social cost of carbon, the dollar figure that economists attribute to each tonne of emissions, based on expected future damage. Although recent studies predict that climate change will cause millions of premature deaths, current estimates of the social cost of carbon are based on outdated research that does not include these projections. His study is published in Nature Communication.

In establishing the new metric of the “cost of carbon mortality”, Bressler is not claiming that its number is final. He calculated the impact of climate change on mortality based on several key public health studies. But there’s a lot of uncertainty in these studies: Bressler’s main conclusions are based on his baseline estimates. On the other hand, Bressler’s study only takes into account direct temperature-related mortality, like heat stroke; it omits possible deaths from storms, floods, crop failures, infectious diseases or wars – all threats widely predicted, but more difficult to quantify. He admits that his estimate could, in fact, “be a huge understatement.”