Ice is disappearing fast in the Arctic and methane emissions are high

2020 has brought terrible fires in Australia, a worldwide pandemic that has decimated the world economy and race riots with an attempted coup that threaten to bring civil war to the United States.

What else can go wrong? What have I left off the list?

The parlous state of 

theArctic ice in the first week 

of July, 2020

This shows just how low the Siberian ice is this year. It could all be gone in just a few weeks.

This shows the large amounts of methane (in excess of 2000 ppb) coming out of the Russian Arctic.

This is how it looks from the satellite. There is a lot of cloud.

Another view of the sea ice extent which shows the areas that are melting.

An alternative view.

Sea ice concentration for 2 July.

This is an extended weather forecast for the North Pole.

Climate Reanalyzer clearly shows just how warm the Central Arctic Basin really is.

These are temperature anomalies

It is raining in the Arctic.

Nothing is more corrosive of the ice than melting from the warm seas below.  This is why the ice has been deteriorating over the past few years independent of weather conditions.

All we need now is a major cyclone, as in 2012.

I use the following as sources of data: 

National Ice and Snow Data Center - 

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ 

CAMS atmosphere Monitoring Service - https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/methane-forecasts 

US Navy - 

https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycomcice1-12/arctic.html 

NASA Worldview - 

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa. 

Climate Reanalyzer - 

https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#t2

P.S. This is the Lincoln Sea at the top of the Canadian 

archipelago where all the thick ice is



Conditions are too cloudy to see what is happening.