Global forecast of the consequences of climate warming in the Northern hemisphere

Abstract

An international team of researchers from Finland, Norway and the United States claims that nearly four million people and 70% of the existing permafrost infrastructure are in areas with high prospect of defrosting of its active layers by the middle of the 21st century as a result of climate warming. The authors declare that even achieving the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement will not significantly reduce the predicted effects. The data are available in the article «Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century» published in the journal «Nature Communications» on December 11, 2018.

Keywords

• global forecast
• climate warming
• northern hemisphere