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A sensational geographical announcement was announced the day before. discovery: Russia has one more in the Arctic Ocean Isle. And although it was first noticed last year, only Now scientists were able to prove that this is really a piece of land, and not a mixture of ice, silt and sand. The new island is a sand spit only a few hundred meters across, but it’s the discovery allowed to increase the territorial waters of Russia by almost 450 square kilometers!
It should be noted that this is the first time that global warming “gave” someone a part of the territory, much more often it takes away. For example, in the same Arctic Ocean off the coast of Tiksi due to thawing of permafrost, the island of Mustach is destroyed annually the sea conquers up to 20 meters of land. But if Russia has nature selects uninhabited lands, then in neighboring Alaska the elements are already spawned the first climate refugees. Few years ago the ocean almost completely destroyed the island on which the Aleutian Kivalina village, authorities were forced to urgently evacuate! Some scientists claim that the Arctic is now on a change in the climatic trend, and soon due to a cooling new losses, no new acquisitions will be gone!
The Arctic ice reached a record low three years ago, when in September 2012 their area was 3.5 million square meters. km, which is almost half the norm. However, the process is now beginning restoration of the planet’s polar cap: this year’s ice shell It turned out to be only 23% less than the average long-term values. 
Photos from open sources And this is what happens to the Tiksi climate, in the vicinity of which a new island was discovered. Most significant overheating here happened in 2010, when the average the readings of thermometers in November were almost 8 ° above the norm. well and Now, for the first time since 2000, the temperature regime turned out to be a little colder than long-term average values, and, as a result, the thickness coastal ice already exceeds 30 cm. And such features characteristic of most of the Russian sector of the Arctic. Should notice that extreme heat is stored only in the water area Chukchi Sea. And in the rest of the territory the air cools faster ordinary.
The Gulf Stream did not save even Svalbard – thermometers in Barentsburg show almost 2 ° colder than normal, and in the midst of a cold, Franz Josef Land, the anomaly even reaches almost 6 °. And soon the cold weather scenario from the Arctic extends to European territory of Russia. So, in Moscow until Wednesday abnormally warm weather will linger, significant precipitation unlikely, and the air warms up to +4 … + 6 °. Thursday-friday light rains turning into snow are possible, and temperature conditions will return to the climate. By the weekend, the weather will improve again, here only the thermometers will turn out to be quite winter – up to -2 °, which 3 ° below normal.
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