The planet’s “refrigerator” has broken down. The Arctic Ocean will be completely free of summer ice by 2030. This assumption was put forward by scientists in connection with the noticeable warming of the Arctic Ocean and the melting of Arctic ice.
If previously the ice of the Arctic reflected sunlight back into space, then due to the decrease in this ice, the sun’s rays are practically not blocked and heat the ice even more.
Iodine-containing clouds are another factor in the self-heating of the Arctic Ocean, while particles of iodine, salt crystals, and sulfur compounds are released from the sea water of this ocean itself. The particles form dense clouds with condensation nuclei of water droplets ranging in size from 70 nanometers, which do not transmit long-wave heat waves from the earth’s surface. Accordingly, the more the ocean warms up, the more core-forming condensing particles are released from it. And the formation of dense water condensates in clouds due to iodine occurs even faster.
Scientists have documented a link between the 1899-1906 earthquake and further warming over the next two decades. Seismic activity released large amounts of methane, causing sedimentary rocks to heat up, increasing the greenhouse effect, thereby accelerating warming.
Also, scientists do not deny the anthropogenic factor of the melting of Arctic ice: traditional greenhouse gases, the content and increase in the atmosphere of ozone-containing substances, such as methyl bromide, freons, halons. Despite the fact that freons have been banned from use in industry, climatologists believe that they triggered the mechanism of global warming, forming a huge ozone hole over the Arctic.