The annual Arctic Report Card for 2022 shows that while the past year hasn’t been the warmest on record or shown the lowest sea ice levels, it reveals the patterns in the Arctic that have been trending for decades continue.
shows that while the past year hasn’t been the warmest on record or shown the lowest sea ice levels, it reveals the patterns in the Arctic that have been trending for decades continue, primarily that the Arctic continues to warm more than twice as fast as the rest of the world.
“I think this year’s report card highlights really the changes that have been underway for a long time, a couple decades now, that it’s been very obvious in the Arctic continue,” Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy Climate Specialist Rick Thoman said.
Topics in the Arctic Report Card include the seabird die-offs, which Thoman says have become an annual occurrence in the Bering Sea, as well as snow cover, sea ice and the tundra.
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