arctic - news blogspot has a new post on how the temperature anomaly in the arctic is why higher than the previous high - and that volume? 4 feet of ice is not that thick!! 3 feet? Wow - it could melt fast. Here in Minnesota we've had pond hockey tournament cancelled - global tournament! Winter carnival canceled. basically all ice fishing on lakes have been canceled. It's huge. Farmers are starting to freak out also.
No food is kind of a problem.
Brand new physics study says 1 degree celsius increase = 60% drop of net income for farmers - already having next to no net income for most farmers.
On February 1, 2024, the daily sea surface temperature reached 21.12°C, the highest temperature on record and higher than the August 2023 peak of 21.09°C.
Could the temperature increase even more over the next few months? As the above image also shows, the highest annual temperatures were typically reached in March for each of the previous years on record, except for 2023 when the current El Niño started to emerge. According to NOAA, the majority of models indicate that this El Niño will persist through March-May 2024....
More specifically, the narrowing of the temperature difference between the Arctic and the Tropics can at times cause strong wind to be present along the path of the Gulf Stream. Rising ocean heat combined with strong wind can cause heat to move abruptly toward the Arctic Ocean, causing sea ice to fall in extent.
The image shows a drop in sea ice extent at the end of January 2024 (blue), a time of year when Arctic sea ice is still expected to increase in extent and to keep increasing in extent for some time to come (grey).
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/02/too-late.html
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