You ’ll never hazard what ’s happening to the Arctic sea ice . That ’s ripe – it ’s crashed to a unexampled platter low for the month of June . The extent was a depressing 260,000 satisfying kilometers ( 100,000 square naut mi ) below the prior low-water mark for June , which was set in 2010 .
accord to theNational Snow and Ice Data Center , this is 1.36 million square kilometer ( 525,000 satisfying mile ) below the 1981 to 2010 long - terminus norm . March is the only month in 2016 that has so far not set the record low for Arctic sea ice extent – it was , though , the second - lowest .
This is all despite the fact that , for the first half of June , the rates of ice loss were astonishingly slow . Still , ice loss per Clarence Shepard Day Jr. in June was still a rather noteworthy 56,900 square kilometer ( 22,000 square miles ) , which signify that a chunk of ice the sizing of Cuba has been disappear every two days .
Arctic sea ice extent as of July 5 , 2016 , compared to the last few years and the long - terminus average . National Snow and Ice Data Center
The Arctic is in serious trouble thanks toman - made clime changeand a series of destructive atmospherical and oceanic cycle – more so than almost anywhere else on the planet , perhaps save for thedeserts near the equator . Snow and icing binding there is melting at itsearliest ever dates , at the winters are getting increasingly warmer . The amount of anomalously ardent sidereal day over the last yr have beenliterally off the chart .
sea currents are preferentiallytransporting tender watertowards the Arctic and consequently speeding up sea ice exit and ice shelf crash . Worse still , a phenomenon known asArctic Amplificationis leading to an acceleration in the pace of northerly parallel of latitude warm itself .
Arctic sea Methedrine is one of the most reflective things on the planet . By deflecting incoming solar radiation back into quad , the humankind warm far less than it should . Ultimately , if theParis climate change agreementisn’t kept to , the Arctic will warm a dramatic20 ° C(68 ° F ) by the 22ndcentury . This will almost certainly obliterate the total extent of the Arctic sea internal-combustion engine , the earthly concern will no longer have its gamey - line of latitude , icy shell to protect it , and world-wide warming will pick up fastness yet again .
[ H / T : Guardian ]
