North Animal Oasis is About To Be Destroyed by Global Warming

The North Atlantic Current moderates Svalbard’s Arctic climate, keeping the surrounding waters open and navigable most of the year. The average summer temperature is around 5 °C (41 °F), while winter averages around −12 °C (10 °F). The western coast is considerably warmer and wetter than the east, due to the North Atlantic Drift. The interior fjord areas and valleys, sheltered by the mountains, have the warmest summers (average temperature of 6 °C (43 °F) in Longyearbyen in July[20]) and little precipitation.
Due to its history of human occupation, Svalbard has one of the longest high-latitude meteorological records on earth. Computer models of global climate have long predicted enhanced greenhouse warming at such latitudes, so the Svalbard record is of particular interest. It shows an approximate 6 °C (11 °F) increase in 100 years, with 5 °C (9 °F) increase in the years following the end of the Little Ice Age. The summer temperatures have been very stable in the last 80 years with some variations in the winter temperatures.

The Norwegian government has, in cooperation with the Global Crop Diversity Trust, built a “doomsday” seedbank to store seeds from as many of the world’s crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible. The bank was created by hollowing out a 120 m (390 ft) tunnel on Spitsbergen cut into rock with a natural temperature of −6 °C (21 °F), refrigerating it to −18 °C (−0 °F), and then storing seeds donated by the 1,400 crop repositories maintained by countries around the world. The vault has top security blast-proof doors and two airlocks. The number of seeds stored depends on the number of countries participating in the project. The point of this project is to prevent the diversity of agricultural crops currently stored (typically in the form of seed) in seed banks from becoming extinct as a result of accident, mismanagement, equipment failure, war or natural disaster, or due to a regional or global catastrophe.
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