Posted on 05/20/2021 5:42:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Oslo (AFP) - The Arctic has warmed three times more quickly than the planet as a whole, and faster than previously thought, a report warned on Thursday.
Arctic sea ice looks set to be an early victims of rising temperatures, with each fraction of a degree making a big difference.
The alarming finding comes from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) in a report timed to coincide with a ministerial meeting this week of the Arctic Council in Reykjavik, which gathers countries bordering the region.
"The Arctic is a real hotspot for climate warming," said Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
During the summer months from June to September, there is added heat from the ocean, which is increasingly free of ice and the insulation it provides.
And the warming is not coming to an end any time soon.
According to forecasts in the report, by the end of the century average temperatures in the Arctic are expected to rise 3.3 to 10 degrees above the average for the period 1985-2014.
The final figure depends on how rapidly humanity draws down greenhouse gas emissions.
Warming has immediate consequences for the Arctic ecosystem, including changes in habitat, food habits and interactions between animals -- including the iconic polar bear -- and the migration of some species.
The melting of hundreds of billions of tonnes of ice each year in Greenland leads to rising sea levels, which endanger the lives of people living thousands of kilometres away.
The receding ice has opened up economic opportunities -- often to the dismay of environmental activists -- including new fishing zones, new commercial shipping routes, and easier access to potential mineral and oil and gas resources.
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” expected to rise 3.3 to 10 degrees above the average for the period 1985-2014.” -— A period of 29 years is used for a baseline? That is silly.
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They will get away with the blatant lies as long as the govt. makes the so called researchers rich. Stop the govt. giveaways and 90% of this malarkey will stop.
Well I guess they won’t want to looks at this little oopsie then
https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
April was -.05 deg C relative to long term averages.
We’re forecast snow and freeze warnings the next couple days so I know where the cold went in case “they” want to come fetch it. 🎿💨🚡
A better way to measure is to use wet bulb temperatures to measure the actual BUTs in the air. They are raising many hoaxes again to hide AZ audit.
That’s true, behind every scientists lie is a government grant.
We can’t even afford that, but they don’t care so long as their agenda is progressing.
Did you see polar bears in distress?
It always happens in places we can’t see.
Obama bought a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard that sits three feet above sea level at high tide. If HE is not worried why should we be?
And the Arctic was supposed to be ice free about twenty years ago. There should be shipping throughout the North West Passage by now.
These reports always say the same thing; the world is about to end....but its still not too late to do something about it
No wonder the growing season in my garden has expanded!
Soon, I’ll be able to feed the world from my small plot.
I’m also seeing more giant vegetables.
Must be the haze in the air from all the pollution China is putting out.
Fifty years ago there was a plan proposed to mine coal, grind it to dust, and spread it on the Arctic to stop THE COMING ICE AGE!
The Arctic warms during the summer!
Who knew!
“The Arctic is a real hotspot for climate warming,” said Jason Box, A STAND-UP COMEDIAN at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
...always best to start with a joke to warm up the audience.
3 * 0 = 0. I’m just sayin.
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