The Arctic, which continues to warm at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe, saw its seventh-warmest year on record and the warmest Autumn since 1900.
Guide Vilhelmine Nathanielsen leads a kayak tour to icebergs that calved from the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier on Sept. 4 in Ilulissat, Greenland.Evan Bush
“Climate change has clearly arrived in the Arctic and created an environment fundamentally different than what was experienced by our parents and generations before them,” Twila Moon, an Arctic scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center and one of three editors of the peer-reviewed report, said during a news conference Tuesday.
The Arctic is warming faster than other parts of the globe because of polar amplification, a trend that allows more energy to be absorbed in summer months and isMelting ice beside severe erosion of the permafrost tundra at Bethel on the Yukon Delta in Alaska in April 2019.Arctic sea ice is now thinner and weaker. Within the next 30 years, scientists expect to see a summer without sea ice.
The Arctic Report Card has been published every year since 2006, with similar themes. This year’s report was compiled by 111 scientists from 12 nations.
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