Cozy!
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:38 pm
https://thinkprogress.org/arctic-sea-ic ... .rgk96nokt
As the seas rise and more places become too hot for human habitation we will all live closer and closer together. Cozy.
And we will get more practice in sharing as food and drinking water become more scarce.
yrs,
rubato
As the seas rise and more places become too hot for human habitation we will all live closer and closer together. Cozy.
And we will get more practice in sharing as food and drinking water become more scarce.
Arctic death spiral: Icebreakers reach North Pole as sea ice disintegrates
Second-lowest sea ice minimum, lowest average annual sea ice extent
Canadian icebreaker “greeted at the North Pole by Santa Claus and his mailbox.” Credit: Science.gc.ca
Arctic sea ice continued its long-term death spiral in 2016, thanks to warming-driven ice melt. As the ice sheet shrinks and thins, it’s becoming easier and easier for icebreakers to reach the North Pole.
The Arctic has been setting records for warmth and sea ice loss and Greenland ice sheet melt, as we’ve been reporting all year long. Last week, 46,000 square miles of sea ice (almost the size of England) disintegrated in one day, which is triple the normal rate.
The result is that the Arctic sea ice minimum has hit the second lowest level on record, as this chart from Tamino shows:
Credit: TAMINO
The trend of long-term decline is pretty clear. Of course, the climate science deniers look at this chart and see a “rebound” from the superlow sea ice extent minimum of 2012.
Tamino has an excellent chart for the ostrich crowd. He averages the sea ice extent over 12 months — the September-through-August period. As this chart shows, this most recent year was the lowest on record:
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