This important new video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that climate change is having a dramatic impact on the Arctic, with record temperatures across the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, reduced summer sea ice, and record snow cover decreases. Every aspect of the Arctic environment is being impacted. “The Arctic is continuing to move into a new and different climate state,” according to this assessment of the scientific data. Glacial melting in Greenland this past summer was the greatest since data collection began in 1873.
The Arctic Report Card was created by a team of 69 scientists and based on 176 published scientific references. The planet is warming and we will face major impacts unless society accelerates the transition toward energy systems that do not produce climate changing carbon pollution.
-Pete Didisheim, NRCM advocacy director
