Melting permafrost and warming climate will lead to the destruction of infrastructure in the far North, and this is a minus, but for Russia there are the advantages of this process. Them in conversation with RIA Novosti called the senior researcher, the North-Eastern scientific-experimental station in the village of Chersky Pacific Institute of geography Feb RAS Sergey Davydov.
According to him, the warming will make the climate more comfortable, can decrease the heating season, reduced spending on the supply of jobs. Russian shipping industry will benefit from the reduction of Arctic ice, as it will cheaper to carry far Eastern fish to the West via the Northern sea route. Among the additional disadvantages the interviewee highlighted the formation of a large number of storms in areas of the shelf, the increase of humidity, increase in the number of forest fires in the North of the country.
Davydov said that now many houses in the North of Russia are built on an insulating pillow that may be affected due to the degradation of frozen soils. Also becomes problematic movement on the roads due to the fact that the ice is getting late and opened early, in polar day machines are in protana.
Large companies and scientists observe the processes of warming, to avoid the destruction of buildings, developing space monitoring, said the researcher.
Previously a Professor at the George Washington University (USA) Dmitry Streletsky said that the melting of permafrost by 2050 Russia will bring a loss of 250 billion dollars because of the subsequent damage to infrastructure. The amount was based on the value of houses, pipelines and other buildings that can be destroyed or deformed.
