The latest version of NOAA's Arctic Report Card documents some truly troubling new trends in the region.
and authored by 147 scientists from 11 countries, is full of cheerful updates on just how quickly climate change is altering one of the world’s most sensitive regions. For instance, the report finds that 2022 had the sixth warmest air temperatures ever recorded in the Arctic; the past seven years have together been the warmest since records began in 1900.
the period from September 2021 to October 2022 was the third-wettest year on record since 1950; the only two wetter “On the fringes of the [Arctic] region…in the next few decades we’re going to see a major transition from snow to rain,” John Walsh, a rrofessor at the International Arctic Research Center and one of the authors of the report card, said at a press conference
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