Numerous prophets frightened humanity with the end of the world in 2012. And although it did not take place, perhaps the whole thing is not in a specific date and not in the calendar of the ancient Indians, but in those processes that regularly occur on Earth. Seismologists, ecologists, futurologists and eschatologists have been talking about this a lot lately.
No one can say for sure when those global changes will take place on the planet, which the adherents of the version of the end of the world have been waiting for so long. This can happen in a year, or in a hundred years, or in a week. But many researchers of the problem agree that if something happens to the planet, it will happen in the 21st century.
Climate change is gaining momentum every year. It becomes impossible to hide information about previously unheard-of weather records. Sensational reports of abnormal heat in the northern regions, snowfalls in the southern regions, and strange atmospheric phenomena are regularly leaked to the media. However, due to the colossal volume of political and social information, these notes go unnoticed. But people keep statistics on all these natural phenomena, and, alas, they are disappointing.
Recently, the number of temperature records in certain regions has increased sharply, environmentalists are sounding the alarm, the whole world is talking about the threat of global warming. The whole danger is that with a sharp global warming, there is a threat of rapid melting of ice caps at the poles of the Earth. A huge amount of frozen fresh water floats irrevocably into the world's oceans and slowly melts there. Consequently, the level of the world's oceans is constantly rising, which leads to flooding of coastal areas.
Already, for some regions of the Earth, the flood is not an ephemeral future, but a harsh reality. Some island states in the Pacific, such as Tuvalu, Nauru and Kiribati, will soon cease to exist. The population is struggling with all its might against the imminent onset of water, but what can people do against nature.
Almost all coastal territories of islands and continents will be under the threat of flooding. According to some forecasts, in the next few decades Japan, Great Britain, Cuba, Madagascar, Greenland may go under water, and most of the Australian continent will be flooded. It is quite possible that the flooding will not be gradual, but abrupt. Ecologists believe that when the melting of the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica reaches a critical point, the second global flood will only be a matter of time. Global changes will begin in the entire appearance of the Earth, all lithospheric plates will start moving, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and chaos will be everywhere.
The waters of the new flood will wash away most of the European countries - France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland and Finland will suffer the most. There will be practically nothing left of these countries, and the remnants of the population will be forced to seek refuge in other countries. Norway and Sweden will become small islands.
Indonesia, the Philippines and New Zealand will be wiped off the face of the earth. These catastrophic changes will affect everyone, all continents will undergo destruction and flooding. It is difficult to predict which regions will suffer the most, which cities will remain, where civilization will revive, where it will be safe on Earth. But three "points" are most often called: Siberia, Tibet and Central Africa.
The second flood will affect Russia least of all. The greatest blow will be taken by the northern and eastern shores, and the Scandinavian peninsula will cover the Russian territories from the west. We can say for sure that Murmansk and St. Petersburg, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Magadan and some other cities will go under water. But some of the more pessimistic researchers believe that almost the entire European part of Russia will go under water.
