By Alek Petty and Linette Boisvert | – September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and …
Source: The Relentless Decline of Arctic Sea Ice is a Dangerous signal of the Climate Emergency
Tag: Arctic
Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle
Newly published satellite imagery shows the ground temperature in at least one location in Siberia topped 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) going into the year’s longest day. It’s hot Siberia Earth summer, and it certainly won’t be the last.
Source: Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle | Portside
Scientist Who Spent Year at ‘Epicenter’ of Climate Crisis Warns World May Already Have Hit Arctic ‘Tipping Point’
‘Urgent’ action is needed, atmospheric scientist Markus Rex said.
Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?
By Steve Turton | – What is Arctic amplification? Do we know what is causing this phenomenon? What effects is …
Source: Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?
‘A Real Hotspot’: Study Shows Arctic Warming 3 Times Faster Than Rest of Earth
“No one on Earth is immune to Arctic warming.”
Source: ‘A Real Hotspot’: Study Shows Arctic Warming 3 Times Faster Than Rest of Earth | Common Dreams News
Methane crisis
"Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean – known as the “sleeping giants of the carbon cycle” – have started to be released over a large area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast."https://t.co/MLLY8PtQ4x
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) October 27, 2020
The World on Fire
Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wild fires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planets largest ecosystems are going up in smoke. It’s eerily spine chilling. “Major fires have hit the Amazon and More
World War III’s newest battlefield: How an incident in the Arctic could be the spark for Armageddon
In early March, an estimated 7,500 American combat troops will travel to Norway to join thousands of soldiers from other NATO countries in a massive mock battle with imagined invading forces from Russia. In this futuristic simulated engagement—it goes by the name of Exercise Cold Response 2020—allie
Climate crisis has generated revolutionary threshold…but a paralyzed left…
“If this were an annual health check-up, I think we’d have to say that the Arctic is chronically sick and getting worse.”
‘Boiling with methane’: Scientists reveal ‘truly terrifying’ sign of climate change under the Arctic Ocean
Scientists studying the consequences of methane emissions from underwater permafrost in the Arctic Ocean announced this week that they found a 50-square-foot area of the East Siberian Sea “boiling with methane bubbles.””This is the most powerful seep I have ever been able to observe,” lead scien
