New North

Weather scientists, our country will prosper because of global warming.
Geographer from the University of California at Los Angeles predicts in his new book, Prosperity New North.

When the world population will increase by 40 percent over the next 40 years, sparsely populated Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and the north of the U.S. will become a significant economic weight and become attractive places for resettlement. This writes Lawrence Smith, in his book ' The World in 2050: four forces shaping the future of Northern civilization '.

Global warming will plunge even the chaos and the environment, but it also frees trapped in the northern ice storages of oil, gas, water and other natural resources. This will enrich local residents and attract migrants. These resources will be available to the Nordic countries as a time when in other places they've manage to dry out, making them even more valuable.

' In many ways, the New North is located very well in the light of forthcoming changes in the coming century, though its unique ecosystem is also under threat of accelerating climate change and development of hydrocarbon resources ', - wrote Smith.

His other predictions:.

- Thanks to climate change will increase cereal production in the Nordic countries and the decline in the southern.

- The Nordic countries collectively will constitute the fourth largest economy in the world, second only to the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China ), the EU and the U.S..

- The Nordic countries will be the envy of the world, thanks to its reserves of fresh water that can be sold to other regions.

As an arctic scientist, Smith has consistently sounded the alarm of the approach of global warming. He is best known for the fact that defined the role of climate change in the disappearance of more than a thousand lakes in the Arctic during the final quarter of the twentieth century. Journal of Discover magazine placed the opening of Smith in the top 100 most significant scientific discoveries of 2005.

This geographer also conducted studies to assess the role of greenhouse gases to accelerate the completion of the last Ice Age some 9,000 years ago.

' In many cases, negative, which will occur worldwide by 2050 - such as floods, lack of water, very hot - almost no impact on the northern regions ... ...




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