Chapter 519 New Island
The South Ceylon Ocean, not too far from the seal station in Antarctica.
There are not many islands here, just a few small archipelagos.
For example, the famous Kerguelen Islands. The headquarters of the South Ceylon branch of Sapiens Company is located on the Kerguelen Islands.
The South Ceylon Branch is considered to be one of the Homo sapiens companies with a relatively high latitude, with its southern part being around 49 degrees south latitude.
Because it is located deep in the ocean, there is no shelter from all directions, so the climate is similar to that of the polar regions, except that the summers are warmer.
The reason why the South Ceylon Branch moved its headquarters to the remote Kerguelen Islands is very simple, because its strategic location is very critical.
The Kerguelen Islands are located at the junction of the Ceylon Ocean and the Southern Ocean, and are right in the center between Oceania, Antarctica and Africa. Their location is very critical.
Another reason is that the Kerguelen Islands themselves are actually the top of an underwater mountain range called the Kerguelen Ridge.
At this time, the 20685 Security Regiment of the Kerguelen Islands was operating three aerospace patrol ships to conduct reconnaissance over the surrounding waters.
There are various detection equipment on the patrol ship.
Captain Simon was looking at the holographic map integrated from the magnetic field radar data. Due to the vast ocean, the magnetic field here was relatively monotonous.
Suddenly, Simon's eyes narrowed, and he stretched out his hand to enlarge the holographic map of one of the areas. As the map was enlarged, the situation in the area became clear at a glance.
In this sea area of 2,500 square kilometers, there is no longer a vast ocean, but more than a dozen relatively high mountain peaks.
Of course, these mountain peaks are now in the sea, and they are actually underwater reefs.
But Simon stared at one of the reefs: "Wu, come here."
Wu Kang, who was in charge of hydrological surveying and mapping, put down his work and walked over.
"Captain, what is it?"
"Look at this reef." Simon pointed to the reef he discovered.
Wu Kang took a look and said, "Reef No. 28702? Huh?"
Apparently Wu Kang also discovered the problem. He quickly continued to enlarge the holographic map, picked up his tablet computer, and entered the command for another detection.
In less than two minutes, the refreshed holographic map still showed no changes.
"It is 1.3 meters above the sea level and covers an area of 2.7 square kilometers. This place is now a small island."
Simon asked, " Could it be the low tide?"
Wu Kang shook his head and said, "No, it is high tide now, and there is still 1.3 meters above the sea surface. This means that this reef now has land that has been exposed above the sea surface for a long time. It can be called an island."
Simon looked at the location of the reef, which is about 267 kilometers away from the Kerguelen Islands.
To the southeast is Heard Island, which is controlled by the Kangaroo Country, and is also 261 kilometers away.
Simon made a prompt decision: "Adjust the flight direction and head towards the island at full speed."
"yes."
Three aerospace patrol ships quickly flew over the island that had just emerged from the sea.
As the airship arrived over the island, the data from the magnetic field radar became more detailed.
The island is oriented northwest-southeast, with a central height of about 1.3 meters and surrounded by rocks less than 1 meter high.
Due to the constant invasion of waves, the surface of the island is rocky, and there are still many sea creatures attached to the rocks, such as corals and seaweed.
One of the patrol ships landed in the center of the island.
Simon and Wu Kang landed on the island.
"The area is okay, but it's too long and narrow. The width is only about 130 to 200 meters." Wu Kang estimated.
Simon squatted next to a coral: "Logically, this reef should not be exposed above the sea."
"It may be related to the recent climate change ." Wu Kang guessed as he grabbed a handful of dry seaweed.
Simon seemed to have heard of this before: "Abrupt climate change? Is it the North Atlantic warm current that is breaking down?"
"Well, I didn't expect the sea to retreat so quickly. It seems that the speed of climate change is much faster than we thought."
According to the situation of this reef, before, only a small part of the land would be exposed during low tide. Now, during high tide, so much land is exposed above the sea surface. Obviously, the sea level has dropped a lot.
In fact, the weather service company affiliated with Sapiens has detected a drop in global sea levels.
As the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic have expanded rapidly this year, the sea levels in the world's five oceans have dropped by an average of 1.3 to 1.5 meters.
This caused part of the reef to emerge from the sea.
For example, in the Pacific Ocean, Sapiens has used advanced monitoring methods to take the lead in erecting monuments on these islands and reefs, and has even established ocean observation stations on some of the larger new islands.
The other four major forces also responded one after another and also stepped up the detection of the waters around them, trying to control these new islands.
Of course, they were not concerned about the few square kilometers of island land, but were worried that the Homo sapiens company would cause trouble.
Moreover, new islands keep emerging from the sea, which is actually not a good thing.
Because this indicates a fact, that is, sea retreat has already occurred.
Even if they desperately use coal and fuel vehicles to produce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, there is no way to prevent climate change.
Many people think that this is caused by the greening of the Sahara Desert.
In fact, this is a bit of a generalization.
Because the North Atlantic Current is the key, and this ocean current system is the key to the stability of the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets.
The carbon sequestered by the Sahara Desert greening project accounts for only a small fraction of the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
The real culprit for the interruption of the North Atlantic Current is actually human beings themselves, who have used fossil fuels on a large scale and emitted a large amount of greenhouse gases.
These greenhouse gases increase the probability of extreme weather and lead to abnormalities in ocean current systems.
If the earth is regarded as a living organism, then the mutation of the ocean current system actually means that the earth feels that it is too hot and now needs to improve heat dissipation.
So how to dissipate heat?
It is very simple. All we need to do is cut off the North Atlantic warm current. This will cause the ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctic to expand rapidly. A large part of the solar radiation energy will be reflected by the ice caps, causing the total amount of solar energy received by the earth to decrease, thereby triggering global cooling.
Therefore, the Sahara Desert greening project of the Sapiens Company is not the culprit for the intensification of this ice age.
In fact, the era in which humans live happens to be during the ice age.
It is only because of technological advancement and the large amount of carbon dioxide emissions that many people think it is warm now.
However, this attempt to fight the climate can easily backfire before human civilization reaches Level 1.
Now is a living example.
The backlash of the earth is coming.
Increasing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions now will not change the expansion of the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets. Instead, it may intensify global cooling and cause more extreme weather.
Russia, the Maple Leaf Country, and Northern Europe, which are at the highest latitudes, are already anxious at this time.
In the past, the freezing period of more than half a year was really annoying.
Now the freezing period is going to be extended further, which is simply fatal.
Especially in Europe and North America, where there are no mountains or plateaus to block the flow, once the ice age comes, more than half of the area is covered by glaciers.
In order to deal with this climate crisis, the four major forces had to hold an emergency meeting.
