Arctic sea ice extent 2013 (brown line on
NSIDC-image below) is more and more following the same path it did last year (dashed line), when extent reached a record minimum, and in 2007 (blue line), the previous record minimum.
Even more worryingly, sea ice is very thin, as the
Naval Research Laboratory animation below shows; large areas with a thickness of 1 meter to zero persist close to the North Pole, as discussed in an
earlier post; the image below, from the
North Pole Environmental Observatory shows lots of water and that it's raining at the North Pole.
The above animation also shows the retreat of sea ice from the Kara Sea, north of Siberia, over the past 30 days.
As can be expected, high sea surface temperature anomalies show up in areas where the sea ice has retreated, as shown by the
DMI image below.
Most worryingly, high methane readings appear over the Kara Sea, as shown on the image below.
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With thinner ice going into the sea ice nose dive the residual at end of descent this year will be low but the effects on land of movement toward desertification and rise of extremes of weather are going to really start to dig into food production.
ReplyDeleteThe idea humans can put this world back together again once lost is a vision of, mortal frailty.. -The Deniers will go to say it would have occurred naturally as if natural cycle continues.
But what's happening needs restoration of balance
Now 3.45 years later Earth total sea ice is at record low and it appears a corporate worldwide effort is underway to dis-assemble United States.
ReplyDeleteClimate change looks to be on fast track to extinction and US is in palm of Trump-Russian oligarchy with the complicity of Internal Agency Tyranny.