A new climate feedback loop that could accelerate Arctic warming.

With a new rise in temperatures in the Arctic and a rapped loss of sea-ice, a new climate feedback loop is being created that could accelerate Arctic warming. The temperatures in the arctic have risen to a new time high, with winter temperatures in Greenland being over 32 degrees for a full 24 hours. the normal temperatures for an Arctic winter in this area is minus four degrees Fahrenheit. Usually this sudden increase in temperature only occurs once every ten years in the Arctic, however this is the second major increase in a few years. the difference these years than the events in the past are that we have both less ice and thinner ice in the Arctic. since there is less ice, the warmer air that is pushed north does not cool off as fast, resulting in more ice melting and an increase in temperature.

https://www.livescience.com/61864-arctic-temperatures-record-high.html

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  1. AnonymousMarch 13, 2018 at 3:01 PM

    I wonder how the melting ice and the increase in temperature will effect the animals that live here and if there is anything that can be done to decrease this acceleration of Arctic warming.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 21, 2018 at 12:03 PM

    I wonder how this will effect the living organisms living here and what else will happen or be done.

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