Posted on 12/12/2024 11:21:03 AM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON—The icy region at the top of the globe, lashed by wildfire and pelted with increasingly heavy precipitation, has tipped into “uncharted territory,” scientists reported Tuesday.
The Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon in the soil to becoming a carbon dioxide source, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its partner researchers concluded in their 19th annual Arctic Report Card.
As a result, the Arctic’s ability to help regulate Earth’s temperature is significantly compromised. Emissions from warming permafrost regions must be thought of as an increasing risk to a planet already being transformed by the overburden of fossil fuel pollution.
“This year’s report paints a clear and urgent picture of the Arctic’s evolving conditions,” said NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad. “We are seeing impacts of warming in real time in the Arctic, and it’s a call to action.”
The final Arctic Report Card of President Joe Biden’s term injects uncertainty into the climate picture at the same time that NOAA and other U.S. science agencies head into an unknown future. President-elect Donald Trump, who does not view climate change as a serious threat, has pledged to slash the size of the federal government. His choice for budget director helped craft a roadmap, known as Project 2025, that describes NOAA as “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry” and calls for the agency to be broken up, with most of its climate research ended.
Congress will have the final say on whether that vision is realized. So it was especially striking that NOAA delivered its big Arctic report at the 24th annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), held this year in the nation’s capital. The largest yearly gathering of Earth and space scientists, with more than 25,000 attendees from 100 countries...
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I keep reading how Antarctica has been cooling. The greening is probably a result of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or possibly some alteration in the microclimate due to changes in ocean circulation.
I tried to locate this on a map of the Antarctic Peninsula to check its latitude. A few years ago there was the usual hysteria about the highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica. I recall the reading was 65F. One thing that was missing from all of the original articles is the location of where the temperature was taken. It was at the tip of the peninsula, about 800 miles above the continent and outside the antarctic circle though the articles thru this ommission implied that it was on the continent itself.
Eventually it was discovered that the measuring instrument was in error, something not widely reported unlike the original erroneous reading. So another episode of fake climate hysteria bit the dust and as always they move on to the next one.
Antarctica has more ice coverage than it has had in many many years.
Wildfires. Unprecedented precipitation. The icy regions of the North Pole. Is the ice on fire?
I call the “dead ice lovers.”
Expert Bullshit.
Exactly.
People wearing expensive shoes & clothes carrying briefcases?
Precipitation, does he mean snow? They use that word because it is associated with raining.
There is so much ice on Antarctica, that it slides out onto the ocean.
It wasn’t that long ago, that Greenland was named that, because it was Green and lush. Wonder if automobile emissions caused that?
Someone went out of their way to burn down forests in Alberta Canada. THAT was as natural as what happened in Hawaii this year.
Preplanned catastrophe!
Yeah. That was really bad.
Yo noaa,you fulla chit mon !
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