In the Arctic, there are large fires in a wide range. Regions spanning Alaska, Greenland and Siberia are suffering from record-breaking heatwaves, resulting in wildfires. Looking at the satellite image, I am afraid.
In Alaska this year alone, 640,000 hectares have already been damaged by wildfires. In early July, a large fire smoke hit the city, and in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, it hit a record high of 32.2 degrees.
Even in Siberia, across the Pacific Ocean, a fire broke out due to the fierce heat. It’s usually a frozen or humid place, but the bushes are engulfed in flames and out of control. It is said that if a fire occurs in the carbon-rich peatlands, where the bodies of aquatic plants and the like are not decomposed and have not completely turned into coal, there is a possibility that the smoke will survive in the ground in the near future and re-enact in spring.
Forest fires also occur in Greenland. Greenland is known as a country of ice, but fires in western Greenland have occurred for the second time this year in the last three years. A fire like this has been rarely seen in history. The scale of the fire is not as large as Siberia or Alaska, but it seems clear that the Arctic is changing dangerously due to global warming.
According to data compiled according to the EU’s Copernicus plan, the amount of carbon dioxide released from the Arctic Circle in June fires is comparable to the annual emissions of Sweden. As the entire planet is engulfed in the worst heatwave ever observed, and the fiery heat continues to occur in the North Pole, fires are also overlapping, the EU explains that the size of a wildfire like this has never been seen before. As global warming progresses, more heat will come, and as a result, wildfires will increase, and the vicious cycle of accelerating warming by releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide can be repeated. It is said that it was impossible for a forest fire like this to occur in the forests of the northern part of the earth, dating back at least 10,000 years. This summer, there seems to be another increase in the global scale problem. Related information can be found here .