Scientists have been observing the displacement of the geographic poles of the Earth. Recently, however, they noticed that the North pole began to move faster than usual. In addition, he changed the direction of its movement and began to shift to the East.
For displacement of the North pole, scientists are watching for over 115 years. Previously, he was shifted to Canada at a speed of 7-8 inches per year. During the entire period of observations, the North pole has shifted about 12 metres. However, NASA scientists noticed that in 2000 the pole abruptly changed course and began to move towards the UK. The speed of it increased and amounted to 17 centimeters per year, which is twice the previous one. “Changing the course of movement of geographical poles of the twentieth century very much,” said Surendra Adhikari from the jet propulsion Laboratory of NASA.
The reason for the shift in the melting glaciers?
The study showed that the cause of the acceleration of the displacement of the poles is melting of glaciers in Greenland and in Western Antarctica, while increased the weight of glaciers in its Eastern part. Since 2003, Greenland has lost an average of over 272 trillion kilograms of ice a year, West Antarctica — 124 trillion kilograms of ice a year. While Eastern Antarctica is gaining annually 74 trillion kg of ice, which could not affect the displacement of the poles.
In addition, decreased amount of water in the Caspian sea region and the Indian subcontinent that also affected the speed of displacement. Scientists call this trend threatening. Researchers believe that this situation has caused the climate warming. “It’s just another interesting effect of climate change,” said Sangli Chen, senior research fellow at the Center for space research at the University of Texas.
The melting of the ice in Greenland in recent times, really comes with catastrophic speed. So the Greenland glaciers have recently become a special object of attention of scientists. To assess the scale of this phenomenon has allowed regular monitoring of ice cap of the island. Scientists believe that if will melt all the ice of Greenland, this could raise global sea levels by seven metres.
The melting of glaciers in turn related to climate warming. In Greenland, average temperatures have risen on half a degree Celsius. According to the estimates of climate scientists from different accounts, 2015 is recognized as the warmest for all history of meteorological observations. 2016 also sets records warming. Climatologists have noted that this trend will continue.
Version of the official science blame people
One of the main causes of global warming scientists believe that anthropogenic factor. Chemical plants emissions lead to large concentrations of carbon dioxide on the planet, which leads to the greenhouse effect. The gradual warming of the average temperatures lead our planet to a catastrophic condition that could lead not only to warming, but the pole shift.
The subject of global warming more and more each day excites the minds of scientists. Recent studies have shown that the average temperature in the Northern hemisphere for the first time in history exceeded pre-industrial levels to two degrees.
Mark two degrees was conditional boundary, beyond which the climate scientists considered critical. In 2014, the UN Secretary General ban Ki-moon urged world leaders to prevent climate warming more than two degrees compared to pre-industrial levels. Exceeding of this value threatens humanity with irreversible consequences, said the Secretary General.
While NASA scientists are slow to recognize such changes problematic, equating the drift to the poles “yet another interesting effect of climate change”. However, the changes on the surface of the planet, as it turns out, can seriously affect the planet’s rotation around its axis.
Some scientists believe that our planet has already happened shifts of the poles, which led to major disasters. In 1974, an engineer and researcher Flavio Barbiero suggested that the shift of the poles occurred 11 thousand years ago, and was reflected in the mythology of “the destruction of Atlantis and the continent Mu”. The scientist believes that the missing Atlantis need to look under the Antarctic ice sheet. In 1970-1980 reporter Ruth Shick Montgomery has published a series of books in which brought all predicted by Edgar Cayce disasters exactly with the pole shift.
Anyway, to avoid disasters a person needs to change their attitude to our planet. Predatory international capital doesn’t care about the health of our Planet, our common home, the Earth. This is a problem everyone on earth.
