4 hours agoThe Arctic is melting: Scientists alarmed by rising temperatures
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)An alarming wave of alarm in the sunny winter Arctic is causing snowstorms in Europe and forcing scientists to reconsider their most pessimistic predictions of climate change. The north Pole has no sunshine until March, but a flow of warm air has postponed temperatures in Siberia [...]
The north Pole does not have sunshine until March, but a flow of warm air has postponed temperatures in Siberia to 35C above the historical averages this month.
Weather forecasters have described what is happening as “crazy”, “
This is an abnormality between anomalies. It's enough to worry that this is a suggestion that there are other surprises as we continue to hit the angry beast that is our climate,” said Earth System Science Centre director at the University of Pennsylvania, Michael Mann. “Archik is always seen as an alarm of the vicious circle that reinforces man - made warming in that particular region. And he's sending a clear warning. ”
The average daily temperatures in the Arctic this year were 20C higher than the average, reports the Guardian”, the Periscope broadcast.
While average temperatures have increased by about 1C, heating to pole near 3C is melting the ice mass.
According to NASA, Arctic Sea ice is now dropping to a rate of 13.2% in the decade, leaving large amounts of water and higher temperatures.
“While heating up at Arctic speed, we can expect that the coming years will bring us even more examples of an unprecedented weather,” said scientist Robert Rhode. /Periscopi/
