Scientists discover shocking global impacts of problems occurring in the Arctic: “Striking Similarity”
An international team of scientists said it discovered the link between melting Arctic sea ice in faraway areas of the planet and the melting of weather.
What happened?
Weather remote connection is a way climate scientists can understand that seems to be atmospheric chaos. According to the definition of the term by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, remote connections are “an important relationship or connection between weather phenomena in widely separated locations on Earth, often requiring climate patterns across thousands of miles.”
A study conducted by a team of scientists from Spain, Norway, France, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States reveals how melting Arctic sea ice promotes weather changes in California and parts of Europe.
“There are many scientific differences on the long-range impact of Arctic sea ice loss,” said Ivana Cvijanovic, lead author of the study, in an abstract published to Scitechdaily. “So far, many studies have focused on long-term effects over hundreds of years. Other studies have studied the response to sea ice loss through modeling settings for artificially applied heat to melt sea ice, which may affect simulated responses.”
Cvijanovic notes that some studies are changing sea ice conditions in the Arctic and Antarctic at the same time, which makes it a challenge to separate their individual effects. The new study is published in the journal Communication Earth and the Environment.
“In our study, we developed a method to assess Arctic ice loss without increasing any heat, and we focus on the impact over decades,” Cvijanovic added.
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What Cvijanovic and other researchers found is that the decline in Arctic sea ice was associated with dry winters in the southwestern United States and wet winters in the western Mediterranean.
Cvijanovic said the changes in weather patterns over the past few decades show “some surprising similarities to the patterns simulated in our study, especially events such as the 2012-2016 California drought.” This drought is one of the worst in California’s history.
Why is the link between Arctic sea ice loss and weather patterns important around the world?
Disappearing sea ice means the world is warming faster, and in addition to raising sea levels, the world’s weather patterns destroy the world’s weather patterns.
By the end of this century, sea level rise could dramatically change the map of the United States. The intergovernmental climate change panel says sea levels will rise by 1.4 to 2.8 feet, or even more than six feet, by around 2100.
New research reveals another worrying consequence of melting Arctic sea ice. Microscopic organisms living under the ice, as the basis of every marine food network, are at risk.
What’s going on with the Arctic sea ice falling?
A Dutch startup has been working to recover rapidly melting polar ice sheets. By pumping water from under the Arctic ice and spreading it across the ground, the company hopes to enhance the thickness of the ice while creating a bright high alpha layer to keep the surface colder.
Preventing our planet from continuing to overheating will require wholesale travel to dirty energy and large-scale transfers to renewable energy. Installing solar panels and using heat pumps and induction furnaces can help curb the amount of heat trapped gas released into the atmosphere.
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