Chapter 428: Melting Antarctica
Through diplomatic means or technical cooperation, Huaxia has reached cooperation plans with other countries to jointly transform deserts and semi-arid areas.
Time is slowly passing, and the area of the earth that has been photographed by high-altitude space satellites is gradually decreasing, and the green covers most of the area, and it begins to spread slowly.
The development of the moon is also progressing slowly, and Huaxia has begun to establish a number of lunar cities.
Through these lunar cities, a tight network of lunar protection is constructed.
Even other countries and organizations tentatively wanted to colonize the moon, but they were expelled by the relevant departments of China.
The United States, led by the United States, has devoted more energy to building a solid space city on the Saturn 8 launch vehicle.
Huaxia has focused its efforts on the development of the moon, but it has also joined forces with European countries to continue to expand the International Space City.
The expansion of the International Space City involves most of the energy of the alliance formed by the United States, and they cannot devote too many resources to the development of outer space.
Huaxia organized a space company to develop asteroid belt resources and build the moon into a material center.
The Moon is primarily responsible for processing resources mined in the asteroid belt and Mars.
China gradually used the moon as a base to develop space resources in the distance.
A huge ocean-going freighter sails in the South Pacific as it prepares to go to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.
The captain rests leisurely in the wheelhouse, and now the ocean-going ship is commanded by a GPS navigation system, which can communicate with the world through the neutrino communication machine.
The freighter also uses the automatic driving function commanded by the quantum computer, and he only needs to give instructions at the moment of emergency, and does not need to keep an eye on the various operating data of the freighter as before.
"Captain, look at the radar, there are icebergs, there are icebergs ahead."
The captain was immediately awakened, and he glanced at the data on the radar, and a huge iceberg was floating in the sea in front of the freighter.
He immediately manually steered the freighter, adjusted its course slightly, and prepared to avoid the iceberg ahead.
At the same time, he shared the data of this iceberg to the international maritime channel through the neutrino communication instrument to remind the passing ships to pay attention to safety.
"How is this going, can this route still go now?
This is already the 27th iceberg this month and the 268th this year, when has the iceberg activity in the South Pacific been so frequent. ”
The captain didn't know what caused the iceberg activity to be so frequent.
He knew that if his freighter hit an iceberg, the consequences would be catastrophic.
Vichams, a well-known Argentine journalist, collects information on glaciers in the South Pacific.
The documentary "Melting Antarctica" was filmed.
The documentary chronicles the evolution of the situation in Antarctica through a year of tracking.
Temperatures began to rise near Antarctica, and the ice sheet on the edge of Antarctica began to melt.
Almost every day, an iceberg breaks away from the Antarctic ice sheet and follows ocean currents into the South Pacific.
Some icebergs slowly melt on the way to drifting, and some icebergs have very tragic consequences for the world.
They collide with fishing boats on the surface or submarines on the bottom of the sea, causing heavy casualties.
As soon as "The Melting Antarctica" was broadcast, it caused a huge response.
American meteorologist Alexander Bird, in an interview with reporters, confided the truth about the melting of Antarctic Week.
"Some people say that now Antarctica is starting to melt, which is the result of human industrial civilization.
I would like to reject this view, because the factors caused by global warming today are completely different from those caused by global warming in the past.
In the past, the main factor of global warming was the distance between the earth and the sun, and the secondary factor was carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases emitted by industrial production.
With the gradual elimination of fossil energy by human beings, geothermal power generation and nuclear power have become the absolute main force of power generation.
A major breakthrough has been made in battery technology, and the electric motor has completely replaced the internal combustion engine.
Greenhouse gas emissions, a problem that could not be solved before, have been indirectly solved with the development of technology.
As global warming, the distance between the Earth and the Sun still plays a decisive role.
But the distance between the Earth and the Sun, unlike before, is entirely a natural factor, with the development of gravitational technology.
Every little gravitational fluctuation in the solar system affects the gravitational pull of the entire solar system.
With the large-scale application of gravity, quantitative change will eventually cause qualitative change, which has become a decisive factor affecting the change of distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Closer to one meter between the Earth and the Moon, the energy growth it absorbs from the sun's rays is astronomical.
Now that the Earth's orbit is getting closer to the Sun every year, the global warming process will intensify in the future.
A secondary factor in global warming is the desert greening project launched by Huaxia.
As deserts turn into shrublands, the entire atmospheric system undergoes major changes, with atmospheric circulation bringing warm, moist air to the vicinity of Antarctica, causing the continent to rise in temperature. ”
After Alexander Bird was interviewed by reporters, he published the relevant papers in authoritative journals.
The paper was reviewed by a number of experts, who generally agreed that Alexander Byrd's views were basically correct, but that some details needed to be verified more precisely.
Fuji TV: "Has the world become so dangerous now?"
Our country is in an earthquake zone, and the land area is very small, which has made us fearful.
Now that Antarctica is melting, Antarctica's abundant water resources will pour on the ocean, directly raising the world's sea level by about 60 meters.
Most of our country will be submerged, is our country going to die?
Most of the most economically developed cities in the world are located near the coastline.
The average height of many countries in the world is less than 60 meters.
These cities and countries will be submerged, and civilization will regress to what extent. ”
The pessimism put forward by the Wa Kingdom affected many people, especially those in the areas that would be inundated, and their anxiety was increasing.
Huaxia CCTV News: "There is no need to worry about the melting of Antarctica.
The melting of Antarctica is a very long process that will last for hundreds of years.
If it had happened before, we would have been helpless.
But now it is the space age, and planets such as the moon and Mars are extremely short of water.
Every tonne of water we transport outside the planet now requires scientists to assess the impact on the planet.
With the increase in water consumption in regions such as the Moon and Mars, it is already a very good result that the water resources melted in Antarctica can fill this gap.
Now scientists even worry that the addition of water in the Arctic Ocean and alpine regions may not be enough to meet the water consumption of these planets.
Large-scale migration to the Moon, Mars and other regions, where water will still be very scarce. ”
The CCTV news bulletin has made many people no longer worry about the melting of Antarctica.
The influx of solid water stored on Antarctica into the ocean can have catastrophic consequences.
But now water resources are not just circulating in the inner circle of the earth, and the water that is transported to outer space every day is astronomical.