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The extraordinary years have become the normal years: Scientists survey radical melt in the Arctic
2016-07-14 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A group of scientists studying a broad range of Arctic systems -- from sea ice to permafrost to the Greenland ice sheet -- gathered in D.C. Wednesday to lay out just how extreme a year 2016 has been so far for the northern cap of the planet. I see the situation as a train going downhill, said Marco Tedesco, who studies Greenland at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. And the feedback mechanisms in the Arctic [are] the slope of your hill. And it gets harder and harder...
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