Melting glaciers can lead to a global catastrophe not in hundreds of years, but in the near future.

This forecast was voiced by climatologists from Rutgers University, Princeton, Harvard and a number of research organizations, Life reports..

According to scientists, by 2050 the sea level can rise by 1.

3 m and flood millions of square kilometers of coastal territory, and also kill 153 million people.

Their fears are related to the speed of the melting of the Larsen glacier, which they previously underestimated.

It is noted that the initial data on the victims are calculated on the basis of the current dynamics of glacier melting - if global warming is an order of magnitude higher than expected, more than 250 million people in coastal cities around the world.

Source: ICTV Facts.