ARMENIA HAS SERIOUS PROSPECTS TO BECOME A DESERT
Support A1+!According to the global meteorological station forecasts the global temperature will increase by 1.7 (minimum) and 5 – 8 (maximum) degrees. According to our meteorologists the temperature will increase by 1.7 degree C in Armenia.
The “Armenian State Hydro-Meteorological Service” foresees that this global warming will result in certain environmental changes. Mainly the cases of freezing will double, the rains will decrease by 10%, and the aridity will become a frequent phenomenon. “There is already a trend of aridity increase in Armenia. The observations held by the year 2002 testify to this,” says the Vice-Director of the “Armenian State Hydro-Meteorological Service” Hamlet Melkonyan. But he adds that the further observations were stopped as there were not financial means.
The temperature increase will have its side effects on Lake Sevan. It will lose 140 million liters drinking water in case the water level increases by 1 degree. We shall also have a loss of river waters by 15%. Thus, Armenia will encounter the problem of water lack. The survey made by the year 2004 revealed that the temperature increase also accelerated the process of making the country wilderness.
The forecast of the world experts shows that the global warming will have a larger scale than the climate changes of the last 10 000 years. Today many documents have been signed in order to decrease the index of the threat. The Kioto treaty was made in 1997 by which the developed countries are to curtail the waste of 6 main greenhouse exhaust gases by 5%. By the way, the USA has the top scores with the quantity of waste, and then come China, Russia and other developed countries.
“The level of exhaust waste in Armenia is rather low in comparison with other countries; it hasn’t even reached the 1990 year level. The greenhouse gases are directly proportional to the economic prosper; we don’t have a developed economy,” claims Hamlet Melkonyan.
