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.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
IIRC, they’ve recently discovered (or acknowledged) that there are volcanoes below.
According to these same idiots, the Polar Ice Caps were supposed to have been completely melted by 2013! Oops! They’ve actually grown in thickness! They receed and spread at fairly predictable rates!
Northwest passage now open to summer cruises.
Get the COVID vaccine discount.
You’ll have a “whale” of a time.
Get to see icebergs up close and personal. (lifeboat drills are mandatory be sure to wear your masks).
Be sure to buy squares on the Titanic pool. (if no one wins, the prize money will be awarded to charity)
(masks to be worn AT ALL TIMES including dining).
On “formal night” all masks must be “Black”.
FREE COVID shots (jabs) available for FREE onboard! (requires 14 day quarantine in your cabin after vaccination).
Why don’t all the enviro-democrats all move to say, Indonesia or something so the earth’s axis tilts us a bit farther off plumb, so the North Pole is shaded a bit more?
Don’t you think that woukd work? Hey i mean if Okinawa or Guam or something is at risk of vaporizing, would a bigger island be better?
Vaporizing=capsizing. Auto correct.
So, you read the good Doctors over at UAH Huntsville as well, eh?
(March was -0.01 degrees, so “The cooling trend extends! April 2021 is freezing over Five Times the Previous Rate!” )
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Amazing how these “scientific reports” are “timed to release in advance of the funding (er, climate) summits ....”
The summer temperatures above the Arctic ice fields (80 degree north) have not changed since forecasts began in the early 1960’s. It IS important to note that WINTER temperatures have increased 4-5 degrees C (when the sun is NOT shining), but summertime air and water temperatures have not changed! Usually, that “minor problem” is erased by comparing and promoting “average annual” Arctic temperatures”.
Poor Obama will have his multimillion dollar beach home on Martha’s Vineyard flooded as will Al Gore’s seaside California mansion.
And, just to show how “accurate” this press release actually is, today’s Arctic Sea Ice extent is HIGHER than EVERY year in the past 7 years.
When Al Gore was born there were 8,000 polar bears. Only 30,000 remain. 🙄
So the earth is warming even slower than we thought?
Stalin might approve.
It’s not the first time
The Arctic has warmed three times more quickly than the planet as a whole,
= = =
How do they calculate this?
Degrees F, or Degrees C?
But they should be using absolute temperature.
Or are they measuring BTU content? That is heat.
“Warmed three times more quickly” What does ‘warmed’ mean? And over what time frame, that they can measure to be more ‘quick’.
How about salty Polar Bear pee, that is melting the ice?
That is the driving factor based on my in depth studies.
And the western ice shelf will build up again, as it has always done
Please God! Make them just shut the **** up.
They have been signing this same song for, at least, the past 40 years. Just prior to that they were freaking out over global cooling. Did not get any interest so went to global warming.
No one, other than really , really stupid people, believes you anymore. Just go away.
no put up a lot of reflective crap up in the atmosphere for a permanent blockage of the sun up the 30%.
Like I said, really, really stupid people
I thought they go married. I can just imagine their children
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