Experts Predict Arctic Ice Will Disappear in 10 Years, Turn Blue

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CNN Indonesia

Thursday, 07 Mar 2024 12:07 IWST

Illustration. Recent research reveals the potential disappearance of polar ice. (Photo: Istockphoto/ShutterOK)

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Study The latest reveals the potential disappearance of ice in The North Pole in the next ten years the impact of the use of fossil fuels. Read the explanation.

The research entitled Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean (2024) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment shows that the possibility of ice disappearing during the summer in the Arctic could occur 10 years sooner than initially estimated.

Scientists predict that the home of some animals, such as polar bears, seals and walruses, will change from the “white Arctic” to the “blue Arctic” during the summer.

Researchers say the North Pole has the potential to be consistently ice-free from September 2035 to 2067. However, the calculation of that period depends on how quickly the world reduces the amount of fossil fuel it burns.

At the end of the century alone, there is the potential for ice-free conditions between May and January if there are high combustion emissions, and August to October in a low combustion emissions scenario.

Alexandra Jahn, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and lead author of the study, said ice-free conditions in the Arctic are inevitable.

However, Jahn still advised to keep combustion emissions low to avoid prolonged conditions.

“This will change the Pole into a completely different environment, from a white summer Arctic to a blue Arctic. So even though ice-free conditions are inevitable, we still have to keep emissions as low as possible to avoid prolonged ice-free conditions,” said Jahn, quote The GuardianTuesday (5/3).

Despite this, Jahn is still optimistic, believing there is still potential to improve this problem.

“Unlike the Greenland ice sheet which took thousands of years to form, even if we melted all of the Arctic sea ice, if we could find a way to remove CO2 back out of the atmosphere in the future to reverse warming, the sea ice would return in one decade (ten years)”, he added.

Because if the Arctic melts, not only will the wildlife living in their habitat suffer, but people living on the coast will also experience difficulties.

If sea ice, which usually reduces the impact of sea waves on the coast, is lost, this can make sea waves stronger and larger, which can even cause erosion.

(rni/dmi)