NOAA reports:
A typhoon, smoke from wildfires and increasing rain are not what most imagine when thinking of the Arctic. Yet these are some of the climate-driven events included in NOAA’s 2022 Arctic Report Card, which provides a detailed picture of how warming is reshaping the once reliably frozen, snow-covered region which is heating up faster than any other part of the world.
Arctic annual air temperatures from October 2021 to September 2022 were the sixth warmest dating back to 1900, continuing a decades-long trend in which Arctic air temperatures have warmed faster than the global average. The Arctic’s seven warmest years since 1900 have been the last seven years.
The Greenland ice sheet lost ice in 2022, the 25th consecutive year of ice loss. In September 2022, the Greenland ice sheet had unprecedented late-season warming, creating surface melt conditions over 36% of the ice sheet on September 3, including the Greenland ice sheet’s summit at 10,500 feet.
Much of the Arctic continued to show increased ocean plankton blooms in 2022, as has occurred over the 2003-2022 satellite observation period. Summer storms in 2022 in the Bering Sea may have been responsible for higher-than-average plankton blooms due to increased vertical mixing of nutrients from deep ocean waters to the surface.
JUST IN: NOAA’s 17th #ArcticReportCard is out.
The arctic is experiencing “unprecedented environmental change” & “widespread disturbances.”
News release: https://t.co/EJT2SXsnhz#AGU22 #ClimateReadyNation @NOAAResearch @NOAAClimate @theAGU pic.twitter.com/TXkVcWgFfy
— NOAA (@NOAA) December 13, 2022
The #Arctic is our alarm for #ClimateChange disaster and it’s going off loudly to warn us of what may be coming!
Read this year’s Arctic Report Card here:https://t.co/ONuCzhZLs7 pic.twitter.com/Zi3aQgxLqs
— Steve Westly (@SteveWestly) December 14, 2022
“We’re seeing the impacts of climate change happen first in polar regions.” The latest Arctic Report Card is here: https://t.co/PdXbFB4v5J
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) December 13, 2022
Arctic Report Card 2022: The Arctic is getting rainier, seasons are shifting, with broad disturbances for people, ecosystemshttps://t.co/32H7K7twin#artic #glacier pic.twitter.com/o9YHWzZ7qF
— Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) December 14, 2022
The NOAA report card shows seabirds dying in the Bering and Chukchi seas for the sixth year in a row.
Seabird die-offs in Alaskan waters were rare before 2015, but hotter water is moving or killing the fish seabirds depend on. https://t.co/HiOZY5fBLs— Bill Weir (@BillWeirCNN) December 13, 2022
According to the Arctic Report Card 2022, climate-driven events like Typhoon Merbok, which flooded Western and northern Alaska communities in September, show how the north is growing warmer and wetter. https://t.co/a1HtAzYyfr
— Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) December 14, 2022