“For the Arctic as a whole, the minimum ice cover values were observed in 2007 - 4.19 million square kilometers, in 2012 - 3.35 million square kilometers, in 2019 - 4.1 million square kilometers. For comparison, in 1980 the ice cover reached 7.6 million square kilometers, in 1983 - 7.28 million square kilometers, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Shumakov noted that in the Arctic there is a decrease in the thickness of ice, the almost complete disappearance of perennial ice in the Arctic waters of Russia.
Earlier, the expert assessed the relationship between climate change and the behavior of whales.