Posted on 01/11/2022 9:26:37 PM PST by Libloather
Cracked homes, buckled roads and ruptured pipelines are likely to become common in and near the Arctic as warming temperatures cause frozen ground to thaw, new findings say.
Five million people live on Arctic permafrost including in Russia, North America and Scandinavia.
Climate change is causing the Arctic to warm two-to-four times faster than the rest of the planet.
"The land changes right before us," one Alaska resident told BBC News.
Scientists studying the Arctic say that 70% of infrastructure and 30-50% of critical infrastructure is at high risk of damage by 2050, with projected cost of tens of billions of dollars.
The study published on Tuesday highlights again how climate change is expected to threaten life as we know it as well as the natural world.
"Arctic communities are all different but everyone living on permafrost is really struggling," Kaare Sikuaq Erickson told BBC News. He works in Alaska as a cultural mediator between residents and institutions.
Permafrost or tundra is defined as land that has been frozen continuously for more than two years. It covers around one quarter of the northern hemisphere's land surface, including half of Canada's land and 80% of Alaska's.
But warming temperatures are causing parts of it to thaw with often unpredictable effects, including sinkhole formation, land slips and flooding.
"Both the construction itself and the warming of the climate cause permafrost to thaw, which threatens existing infrastructure and future construction projects," says lead author Prof Jan Hjort at the University of Oulu in Finland.
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More humbug from the Beeb.
The earth has never warmed and cooled before.
So - this is a mostly peaceful protest, by Mother Gaia?
Antarctica has become a wasteland with the lowest new home starts figures of anywhere in the world. The population has dwindled to an estimated total of 5000 or less and the majority of those who remain plan to leave sometime in the near future. Were it not for New York, Chicago, and San Francisco it would be number one in loss of population.
Except for one problem, there have been no weather trends outside the range of natural variability in the arctic. Currently worldwide temperatures as taken by satellite sensors have not increased in 9 years and 3 months.
Oh thank God
only 9 years left and theres nothing we can do about it
Never had floods or volcanoes before either. These are all manmade horrible results of us existing here.
/sarc
Understand that it’s not about facts. They know the science points to a cooling trend, but the opportunity to implement a social system with total population control is too ripe. As temperatures start to dip, it’ll become obvious that “warming” is a hoax, and they’ll declare that their system saved the day. All is well!
infrastructure is at high risk of damage by 2050, with projected cost of tens of billions of dollars.
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So we need to spend trillions to save few billions!
Money well spend.
What a stupid load of tripe.
Permafrost has always been nearly impossible to build on.
Hey BBC, go read a story about road building up their and the challenges they had.
My dad was in the first Army unit to drive the Trans-Alaska Highway. As I recall he said the trip took six weeks.
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