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Related: About this forumArctic Autumns On Track To Warm A Staggering 23°F, NOAA Warns
We are already seeing and should expect to see continued dramatic changes in the Arctic, where temperature increases are occurring faster than in the mid-latitudes due to greenhouse gases combined with multiple local physical feedbacks, said James Overland, Ph.D., the lead author from NOAAs Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. But we can potentially slow the rate of climate change in the second half of the century if we mitigate global carbon emissions.
Climate model projections show an Arctic-wide end-of-century temperature increase of +13∘ Celsius in late fall and +5∘ Celsius in late spring if the status quo continues and current emissions increase without a mitigation scenario. In contrast, the mean temperature projection would be +7∘ Celsius in late fall and +3∘ Celsius in late spring by the end of the century if a mitigation scenario to reduce emissions is followed, concludes the paper titled, Future Arctic Climate Changes: Adaptation and Mitigation Timescales.
While models show that mitigation could slow the changes in temperature, changes that are expected to continue include additional months of open water in the Arctic Ocean, ever earlier snow melt, further loss of permafrost, increased economic access, and dramatic impacts on ecological systems, including fisheries, vegetation and wildlife.
Arctic sea ice volume has already decreased by 75 percent since the 1980s. The mean Arctic temperature is 1.5∘ Celsius higher today than it was for the period from 1971-2000, double the warming that has occurred in the lower latitudes.
http://research.noaa.gov/News/NewsArchive/LatestNews/TabId/684/ArtMID/1768/ArticleID/10423/Climate-models-show-carbon-emission-mitigation-could-slow-Arctic-temperature-increases.aspx
Climate model projections show an Arctic-wide end-of-century temperature increase of +13∘ Celsius in late fall and +5∘ Celsius in late spring if the status quo continues and current emissions increase without a mitigation scenario. In contrast, the mean temperature projection would be +7∘ Celsius in late fall and +3∘ Celsius in late spring by the end of the century if a mitigation scenario to reduce emissions is followed, concludes the paper titled, Future Arctic Climate Changes: Adaptation and Mitigation Timescales.
While models show that mitigation could slow the changes in temperature, changes that are expected to continue include additional months of open water in the Arctic Ocean, ever earlier snow melt, further loss of permafrost, increased economic access, and dramatic impacts on ecological systems, including fisheries, vegetation and wildlife.
Arctic sea ice volume has already decreased by 75 percent since the 1980s. The mean Arctic temperature is 1.5∘ Celsius higher today than it was for the period from 1971-2000, double the warming that has occurred in the lower latitudes.
http://research.noaa.gov/News/NewsArchive/LatestNews/TabId/684/ArtMID/1768/ArticleID/10423/Climate-models-show-carbon-emission-mitigation-could-slow-Arctic-temperature-increases.aspx
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Arctic Autumns On Track To Warm A Staggering 23°F, NOAA Warns (Original Post)
phantom power
Feb 2014
OP
Our overlords are busy carving up the arctic for exploitation in anticipation.
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2014
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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)1. Our overlords are busy carving up the arctic for exploitation in anticipation.
Mitigation? that is the last thing they have in mind.
hatrack
(59,593 posts)2. But PBO just proposed 1/10th of 1% of the farm bill on climate adaptation!
The cavalry is here!