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Global warming is humanity's main problem. The ozone hole is disappearing, this prevents the fight against warming, the temperature on the planet is rising, and the Arctic ice is melting. … Everything threatens with an imminent catastrophe. But scientists have found that at least global warming is not to blame for the melting of the ice: strong winds are to blame for this. Researchers believe that the effects of winds blowing from the Arctic space of the planet are the main reasons for the loss of a third of the glaciers.
Such results may explain the loss of ice in the Arctic region in the summer of 2007 and 2008. It was after that that it was believed that within a decade there would be no ice left in this part of the planet at all.
Researchers from the Japanese Agency for Marine and Terrestrial Technology and Sciences do not dispute that global warming also affects the melting of ice. But the results of their study raise doubts that melting has reached its peak and that the pace will slow down in the coming years.
Researcher Masayo Ogi and her colleagues have studied data on changes in wind behavior since satellites began measuring volumes in 1979 glaciers. They found that changes in wind behavior completely coincided with the periods when critical amounts of sea ice disappeared. According to them, half of the quantitative changes in ice volumes that occur every September of the year can be explained by wind dynamics.
Experts have suggested that large blocks of sea ice could be carried south to the Atlantic Ocean by winds through the Fram Strait between Greenland and Norway Svalbard Islands.
In the report, scientists write the following: “The difference in the rate of ice flow through the Fram Strait caused by winds is important for determining the fluctuation of sea ice levels in September every year. Due to the influence of winds on ice circulation, the amount of sea ice in the Arctic space decreases in summer.”
According to Masayo Ogi, summer and winter winds may have carried ice across the Fram Strait during 1979-2009. It also included warming air and ocean waters in the list of factors that influence the melting of glaciers.
According to the Center for the Study of Snow and Ice Levels, since 1979, the amount of Arctic ice has decreased by 10 percent every decade, equal to 28,000 miles per year.