Climate change

• final co2 boundary


  450 ppm at 2050
• how has agriculture in the himilayas been impacted

  use the summer glacial meltwater as irrigation for crops

  as temperature increase the glaciers start to retreat and melt earlier which creates drier summers and results in a loss of farmland
• melting permafrost effects on russian landscape

  topographical degredation

  this challenges the farmers and the oil

  60 % of all homes near norilsk have been deformed

  this has lead to craters forming in the landscape as the terrain has become unstable
• how much of russia is covered by permafrost

  2/3
• percentage ice loss since 1960 


  40 %
• russian oil spill 


  in may 2020 a petrochemical tank burst near Norilsk

  it leaked over 20000 tones of oil into the river
• impact on the swiss alps

  increased glacial movement due to basal sliding and melt water ~

  this has caused the ski lifts on the titlis glacier to be moved 3/4 times every year
• Himalayan glacier expected to disappear by

  2035
• where did the wildfires occur in siberia

  Yakutsk
• health impacts in russia due to permafrost melting

  in 2016 in northern russia there was an anthrax outbreak from a 75 year old reindeer carcass

  there were 100 cases reported and 1 child died

  2300 reindeer died
• oldest virus in the russian permafrost

  30000 years old
• percentage of people in the himilayas that relies on agriculture

  80 %
• first co2 boundary 


  in 1998 at 350 ppm
• how much has co2 increased since 1988

  47 %
• how much landscape did the siberian wildfires destroy

  3.7 million acres of taiga
• percentage permafrost loss in Switzerland

  5%
• how much are russian emissions expected to increase by

  8.2 % in 2050
• how many hectares of siberian taiga have been burnt this decade

  11.5 million
• how much snow cover has been lost in siberia

  12 % since 1951