Very nice overview of Arctic changes in past several decades, graphs worth bookmarking.
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Key Indicators of Arctic Climate Change: 1971-2017 – video abstract Box, J.E., W.T. Colgan, R Brown, M Wang, J Overland, J Walsh, U Bhatt, T Christensen, N Schmidt, M Lund, F-J Parmentier, E Euskirchen, V Romanovsky, R Corell, W Meier, B Wouters, S Mernild, J Mård, J Pawlak and M Olsen 2019 Key Indicators of Arctic Climate Change: 1971-2017, Environmental Research Letters, ERL-106063, 8 April 2019. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aafc1b
editing and voice over J. Box
This work is developed in support of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) and under the framework of the Network on Arctic Glaciology (NAG) of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). Financing for this study is primar- ily by DANCEA (Danish Cooperation for Environ- ment in the Arctic) under the Danish Ministry of Energy, Buildings and Climate.
Excellent summary, and the graphs ARE worth saving. Looking at this makes one wonder why there are still any deniers.
The Banks Island thaw slumps are shocking.
“In 1984, there were about 60 active thaw slumps on the island. In 2013, there were more than 4,000”
3 minute video:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uoo-ass032719.php
Beyond shocking. How many thousands of “little” climate change-induced occurrences like this are happening all over the globe that no one but the locals are even aware of?
Meanwhile, even big climatic changes might not be noticed by urbanites and suburbanites because they’re masked by human environment changes (new billboards, facades, skyscrapers disrupting the wind, traffic, construction, etc.). Vague shifts in temperatures and precip are less noticeable than, say, the sudden appearance of power-scooters (and power-scooter users).
We who are comfortably separated from nature would be the last to know (unless we made a point of paying attention to it).
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aafc1b
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Had same problem—found it here:
https://youtu.be/asKIeN0pYTk
I wanna send that to policy makers and to the media. As long as I haven’t access to the whole study I can’t do that.
Here
https://nsidc.org/research/bios/meier.html
I found
Box, J., W. Colgan, R. Brown, M. Wang, J. Overland, J. Walsh, U. Bhatt, T. Christensen, N. Schmidt, M. Lund, F.-J. Parmentier, E. Euskirchen, V. Romanovsky, R. Corell, W. Meier, B. Wouters, S. Mernild, J. Mård, J. Pawlak, and M. Andersen. 2019. Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971-2017. Environmental Research Letters ERL-106063. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aaf2ed
which leads to
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf2ed/meta
but I can’t find a paper entitled “Key Indicators of Arctic Climate Change”
Thanks. I had that checked all that too. I can only assume that the paper hasn’t been published yet.
It’s out now! Cheers!
Jaysus. Sorry. I’m wrong. That’s still the previous paper by Box et al. I should take a break now 🤪
Today:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aafc1b/meta
Many thanks, Keith!
Sent!
This article just arrived my inbox => Global Warming Is Pushing Arctic Toward ‘Unprecedented State,’ Research Shows
Inside Climate News is really fast.
Just read a quick introduction to the paper in the UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS website
Air temperatures in the Arctic are driving system change
A new paper shows that air temperature is the “smoking gun” behind climate change in the Arctic, according to John Walsh, chief scientist for the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center.
Several UAF researchers are co-authors on the paper, which says that “increasing air temperatures and precipitation are drivers of major changes in various components of the Arctic system.”
Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen is lead author of the paper. “The Arctic system is trending away from its 20th century state and into an unprecedented state, with implications not only within but beyond the Arctic,” he said.
https://news.uaf.edu/air-temperatures-in-the-arctic/
While weather is not the same as climate, Alaska had a very weird March this year.
New monthly high temperature records were set in 10 of the selected 19 stations, especially in the Interior and in western and northern Alaska. Kotzebue’s average monthly temperature was 21.9 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
https://news.uaf.edu/alaska-had-april-weather-in-march/
Two good finds, Bob. Scientists have been saying for years that Arctic is THE place to watch because it’s warming faster than any other region of the planet. Many of us on Crock have said the same thing—-in fact,that may have been one of the first comments I ever made here years ago (CRS).
All these papers, studies, and anecdotal reports just add more fuel to the fire (or is that a not-so-funny way to say it), but don’t forget that Antarctica is acting up, and we almost totally ignore the warming at the Third Pole (where more than a billion people live and CAGW will heavily impact more than double that number).
Too many monsters under the bed—how do we manage to sleep?