NOAA Says The Polar Freezer is In Defrost Mode

Report Card Highlights from NOAA

Surface air temperatures in the Arctic continued to warm at twice the rate relative to the rest of the globe. Arctic air temperatures for the past five years (2014-18) have exceeded all previous records since 1900.

Source: Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal Dec. 20, 2018.  More data, graphs photos, text here:

NOAA’s Says The Polar Freezer is In Defrost Mode

 

 

 

 

 

ARCTIC MATTERS

Arctic Matters day, according to the National Research Council of the National Academies is January 14th.  Go to http://nas-sites.org/arctic/ to read about it.  Link to their Interactive web tool, or download a PDF of their 32-page, well-illustrated booklet or download a poster.  What happens in the Arctic, affects the whole globe.

Interactive web tool: see the global effects of changes in the arctic

Arctic Matters interactive web tool:
see the global effects of changes in the arctic