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Hey everyone,
I’ve been following climate science for years, but I just came across a statistic that genuinely shocked me.
I knew the Arctic was warming faster than the rest of the planet, but I always thought it was about twice as fast. Turns out, new research shows the Arctic has been warming nearly four times faster than the global average over the past four decades.
Think about that for a second. While global temperatures have risen by about 1.1°C since 1970, some parts of the Arctic Ocean have warmed up to seven times faster than the global rate. The Barents Sea region alone has seen temperature increases of 2.7°C (4.9°F) per decade.
That’s absolutely bonkers.[nature +1What really gets me is that our climate models have been consistently underestimating this Arctic amplification. The observed warming ratio is so extreme that it’s essentially an “extremely rare occasion” in climate model simulations. This suggests either we’re witnessing something incredibly unlikely, or our models are missing crucial feedback mechanisms
The implications are huge. This rapid Arctic warming is pushing us toward the 1.5°C and 2°C global warming thresholds five and eight years earlier respectively than if the Arctic was warming at the average global rate. We’re literally running out of time faster than we thought.
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