The Arctic may run out of ice in the next 5 years

The pace of climate change is happening faster than anticipated by the scientific community and that situation can have frightening consequences after half a decade, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) declares. .

According to WWF, weather disasters, such as the terrible summer that killed 35,000 people in Europe in 2003, will happen more often.

WWF found that the Arctic Ocean could run out of ice at least 30 years earlier than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN agency.

Ice in the Arctic in 1979. (Photo: AP)

If this trend continues, within 5 years we will not see the Arctic ice in the summer - something that has never happened in over a million years. That phenomenon may kick-start a stage in which climate change is rapid and unexpected, not slow and equally present.

The WWF report, entitled " Climate change: Faster, Stronger and Earlier " also said that crop failures, flooding in Northern Europe and prolonged drought in the Mediterranean will occur. regularly. The number and intensity of tornadoes in the UK and elsewhere will increase.

Coverage area of ​​the ice is significantly reduced in 2005. (Photo: AP)

WWF called on the European Union to aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 0% by 2050 so that global temperatures will not increase by more than 2 degrees C. The first step is to reduce gas emissions by 30%. Current waste in 2020.

Currently, only the UK is committed to 80% reduction in emissions by 2050. The British government claims it can achieve its goal by using renewable energy and building new generation power plants. Other European countries, including Italy and Poland, argue that cutting emissions is difficult to implement in the current financial crisis.