VIDEO: Get the highlights from NOAA’s 2022 ArcticReportCard & see how climate change is causing “unprecedented environmental change” in the Arctic. NOAAResearch AGU22
Much of Front Street in Nome, Alaska was underwater on Saturday, September 17, 2022, as the destructive remnants of Typhoon Merbok lashed Nome and many other western Alaska coastal communities.A typhoon, smoke from wildfires and increasing rain are not what most imagine when thinking of the Arctic.
The 15th chapter of the report card, authored by a team that includes Native Alaskan scientists, describes how warming air temperatures, shrinking sea ice, shorter periods of snow cover, increased wildfire, rising levels of precipitation and changes in animal migration patterns and their abundance profoundly affect the safety, food security, health, economic wellbeing and cultural traditions of Indigenous people.
“With this important new chapter and other timely additions, the 2022 Arctic Report Card underscores the urgency to confront the climate crisis by reducing greenhouse gasses and taking steps to be more resilient,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “The report provides observations and analysis to help build a Climate-Ready Nation in a region on the front lines of climate change.”
Arctic annual air surface temperatures from October 2021 to September 2022 were the sixth warmest dating back to 1900. The image on the left depicts the departure from the average near-surface temperature across the Arctic during this period, with redder colors showing areas of greater than average warmth. The graphic on the right shows how the rate of Arctic air temperature warming has outpaced the rate of global warming.
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