Rapidly Changing Earth

“The Hadley Computer Lab Center in Britain’s Meteorological Office
warned in October that unless global greenhouse gas emissions start reducing 3% a year beginning in 2010, the average global mean temperature of Earth will rise by at least 4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 90 years - 4 times the rate of global warming in the 20th Century.”

 

Summer ice melt in Arctic has accelerated as fall temperatures broke all record highs - averaging 5 degrees Celcius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal. Image courtesy NOAA.
Summer ice melt in Arctic has accelerated as fall temperatures broke all record highs - averaging 5 degrees Celcius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal. Image courtesy NOAA.

October 24, 2008  Albuquerque, New Mexico - In October, scientists reported that the fall temperatures in the Arctic broke all record highs – averaging 5 degrees Celcius above normal, which is 9 degrees Fahrenheit above normal! All that Arctic warming has caused the highest sea level rise on record. It doesn’t seem like a big number – only .254 centimeters a year – but it still means Arctic waters are rising as more and more ice melts from the warmer and warmer Arctic temperatures.

 

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