Homo sapiens.

Chapter 519 Newborn 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, in the famous Kerguelen Islands, the headquarters of the South Ceylon Ocean Branch of Homo Sapiens is set up on the Kerguelen Islands.

The South Ceylon Ocean Branch is considered to be one of the Homo sapiens companies with a relatively high latitude, and its south is almost at about 49 degrees south latitude.

Because it is located deep in the ocean, there is no shelter in all directions, so the climate is similar to the polar climate, except that the summer is relatively warm.

The reason why the Nancilan Ocean Branch moved its headquarters to the Kerguelen Islands, which is not a shit, is very simple, because the strategic location here is very critical.

The Kerguelen Islands are located at the junction of the Ceylon Ocean and the Southern Ocean, and just in the center between Oceania, Antarctica, and Africa. The location is very critical.

Another reason is that the Kerguelen Islands themselves are actually the top of a submarine mountain range called the Kerguelen Ridge.

At this time, the 20685 Security Regiment of the Kerguelen Islands is manipulating three air and space patrol ships to conduct reconnaissance over the surrounding waters.

There are various detection equipment on the patrol ship.

Captain Simon is looking at the mimetic holographic map integrated from the magnetic field radar data. Since it is a vast sea, the magnetic field here is 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 this area was also clear at a glance.

I saw that in this sea area of ​​2500 square kilometers, there is no longer a vast sea, but there are more than a dozen mountain peaks with relatively high heights.

Of course, these mountain peaks are in the sea at this time, which is actually a submerged reef.

But Simon stared at one of the reefs: "Wu, come here."

Wu Kang, who was in charge of hydrographic surveying and mapping, put down his work and walked over.

"Captain, what's the matter?"

"Look at this reef." Simon pointed to the reef he found.

Wu Kang glanced at it: "Reef No. 28702? Huh?"

Apparently, Wu Kang also discovered the problem, so he quickly continued to zoom in on the holographic map, picked up his tablet computer, and entered the command to detect again.

In less than 2 minutes, the refreshed holographic map still hadn't changed much.

"It is 1.3 meters out of the sea, and the area is 2.7 square kilometers. This place is now a small island."

Simon asked: "Could it be the reason for the low tide?"

But Wu Kang shook his head: "No, it's high tide now, and there is still 1.3 meters above the sea surface, which means that this reef now has long-term land above the sea, and this can be called a small island."

Simon looked at the location of this reef, which is about 267 kilometers away from the Kerguelen Islands.

To the southeast is Heard Island controlled by the Kangaroo Country, which is also 261 kilometers away.

Simon made a decisive decision: "Adjust the flight direction and head towards this island at full speed."

"Yes."

Three air and sky patrol ships quickly flew over the island that had just emerged from the sea.

As the airship reached the island, the data from the magnetic field radar became more refined.

The island presents a northwest-southeast orientation, with a middle height of about 1.3 meters and surrounded by rocks below 1 meter.

Due to the year-round attack by waves, the surface of the island is rugged, and there are still many underwater creatures attached to the rocks, such as corals and seaweeds.

One of the patrol ships landed in the center of the island.

Simon and Wu Kang landed on the island.

"The area is not bad, but it is too narrow and long, and the width is only about 130-200 meters." Wu Kang checked it visually.

Simon squatted next to a coral: "Accordingly, this reef should not be exposed to the sea."

"It may have something to do with the recent climate change." Wu Kang guessed, grabbing a handful of dry seaweed.

Simon seemed to have heard about it: "Sudden change in climate? Is it a matter of the warm flow of the North Atlantic Ocean?"

"Well, I didn't expect the sea to retreat so fast. It seems that the speed of climate change is much faster than we thought."

According to the situation of this reef, before this reef was only a small part of land exposed when the tide was low, but now during high tide, so much land is exposed to the sea, obviously the sea level has dropped a lot.

In fact, the weather service of Homo sapiens has detected a drop in sea levels around the world.

With the rapid expansion of ice sheets at the north and south poles this year, the sea levels of 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, the Homo sapiens company has used advanced monitoring methods to take the lead in erecting monuments on these islands and reefs, and even established ocean observation stations on some relatively large new islands.

And the other four major forces have also reacted one after another, and are also strengthening their detection of the surrounding waters, and will try to control these new islands.

Of course, they are not for the few square kilometers of island land, but are worried about the Homo sapiens company doing things.

Moreover, new islands continue to emerge from the sea, which is actually not a good thing.

Because this shows the fact that sea regression has already occurred.

Even if they desperately use coal and fuel vehicles, the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced, 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 warm current is the key, and this ocean current system is the key to the stability of the north and south polar ice sheets.

The carbon sequestered by the greening of the Sahara desert accounts for only a small fraction of the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.

The real culprit that caused the North Atlantic warm current to stop flowing is actually humans themselves, who use fossil fuels on a large scale and emit a lot of greenhouse gases.

These greenhouse gases can increase the probability of extreme weather, which in turn can lead to abnormalities in ocean current systems.

If the earth is regarded as a living body, the sudden change in the ocean current system is actually the earth feeling that it is too hot, and now it needs to strengthen heat dissipation.

How to dissipate heat?
It is very simple, just cut off the warm current in the North Atlantic Ocean, which will cause the ice sheets of the north and south poles to expand rapidly, and a large part of the solar radiation energy will be reflected by the ice sheets, resulting in a decrease in the total amount of solar energy received by the earth, which in turn triggers global cooling. .

Therefore, Homo sapiens' Sahara desert greening project is not the main culprit for this ice age strengthening.

In fact, this era of human life happened to be in the ice age.

It is only because of the advancement of technology and the large amount of carbon dioxide emissions that many people think that it is very warm now.

However, this attempt to fight against 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 has no way to change the expansion of ice sheets in the north and south poles. On the contrary, it may exacerbate global cooling and trigger more extreme weather.

Lucia, Maple Leaf Country, and Northern Europe with the highest latitudes are already in a hurry.

The freezing period of more than half a year before was very cheating.

Now the freezing period will continue to be extended, that is simply terrible.

Especially in the Europa region and North America, where there are no mountains or plateaus to block them. When the ice age came, more than half of the area was covered by glaciers.

In order to deal with this climate crisis, the four major forces had to hold an emergency meeting.

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