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
theArctic ice in the first week
of July, 2020
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.
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 -
CAMS atmosphere Monitoring Service - https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/methane-forecasts
US Navy -
NASA Worldview -
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.
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.
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