“Climate change is happening faster than it’s ever happened before in our record,” said Bryan Thomas, station chief for the United States' northernmost climate observatory. “We’re right in the middle of it.”
Bryan Thomas, station chief at the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, evaluates an equipment glitch. By Sarah Kaplan Sarah Kaplan Reporter for Speaking of Science Email Bio Follow April 19 at 7:30 AM UTQIAGVIK, Alaska — Bryan Thomas doesn’t want any more “wishy-washy conversations about climate change.”
Land surface temperature anomalies from March 1-31, 2019. Red colors depict areas that were hotter than average for the same month from 2000-2012; blues were colder than average. Data obtained from NASA's Aqua satellite. Utqiagvik set daily temperature records on 28 of the first 100 days of this year, according to the Alaska Climate Research Center.
This time of year, he explained, “you shouldn’t be able to smell anything.” The ground should still be frozen solid. Unstable ice has already claimed lives. Two men died of exposure in late March when their vehicles fell through the frozen Kuskokwim River near Bethel, the Division of Alaska State Troopers said.
View through a window at the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory. Spring “breakup,” when the Arctic defrosts, is always a dangerous time in Alaska, Widmier said.
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