Recently, 44 of the world's leading climatologists published an open letter warning of a cold catastrophe threatening the northern regions due to global warming. According to scientists, the collapse is likely to happen already in this century. Naturally, the letter caused a lot of anxiety and questions. To understand the situation, the journalists of the Bi-Port news agency turned to Gennady Ilyin, head of the MMBI Laboratory of Oceanography and Radioecology. Read the interview with Gennady Vasilyevich on the agency's website.