Top Five 2019 Summer Arctic Calamities

The Arctic Circle has experienced a pretty dramatic and catastrophic Summer season in 2019. And as the Climate Scientists always tell us... 'what goes on in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic'. The ramifications of Arctic amplification will impact each one of us over time. This week we think about what made Summer 2019 so devastating.

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Research Links -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/07/26/europes-heat-wave-is-about-bake-arctic/
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/2019-in-line-for-second-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-extent-record/
https://news.sky.com/story/life-near-the-rapidly-warming-north-pole-rain-in-winter-and-more-avalanches-11815343
https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/index.uk.php
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190612-the-poisons-released-by-melting-arctic-ice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49125391
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48890556
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/arctic-wildfires-continue-blaze
https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2019-07-03-anchorage-alaska-all-time-record-heat-wave
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/07/oceans-demise-the-end-of-the-arctic-as-we-know-it
http://greatwhitecon.info/2019/05/an-inconvenient-truth-about-polar-ice-melt/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-865803/?fbclid=IwAR1R294naF650G4YkFvo-M8cw9kengrxt1xPVzUfHXMIJg4He97s3dfh-t0http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/images/greenland_daily_melt_plot.png
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-heatwave-canada-climate-change-temperature-record-alert-nunavut-alaska-a9008181.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-things-to-watch-as-summer-heat-bakes-the-arctic/?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
https://time.com/5646168/alaska-sea-ice-melted/
http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/
https://climatereanalyzer.org/reanalysis/daily_maps/
https://infographic.statista.com/normal/chartoftheday_16292_per_capita_co2_emissions_of_the_largest_economies_n.jpg
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/09/19/why-russia-is-ambivalent-about-global-warming
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/thk.uk.php
https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/service/press/press-release/low-sea-ice-cover-in-the-arctic.html
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywammg/over-15-thousand-square-miles-of-siberia-are-on-fire-and-its-a-global-ecological-catastrophe
https://media.nature.com/w800/magazine-assets/d41586-019-02653-x/d41586-019-02653-x_17168836.png
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2019/06/18/12/huskies-greenland-climate-change-0.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70
https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arc_list_arcticictn.html#2014
https://www.statista.com/chart/16292/per-capita-co2-emissions-of-the-largest-economies/


Further sites on ice-free artcic consequences -

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17339046/arctic-sea-ice-decline-albedo-effect-climate-change-global-warming
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-sea-ice-loss-implications/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/07/oceans-demise-the-end-of-the-arctic-as-we-know-it


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