Disturbing signs of climate change in 2012: UN weather agency
Source: Nunatsiaq News
Last year joined the 10 previous years as one of the warmest on record — at ninth place, said the World Meteorological Organization’s May 2 “Statement on the Status of the Global Climate.”
“The sustained warming of the lower atmosphere is a worrisome sign,” said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud in a news release from the United Nations’ weather agency. ... the 27th consecutive year that the global land and ocean temperatures have stood above the 1961 to 1990 average.
... The Arctic summer of 2012 witnessed “even more dramatic changes,” the WMO said.
These included a record low northern hemisphere snow extent in June, a record low sea-ice extent in September, record high permafrost temperatures in northernmost Alaska, and the longest duration of melting on the Greenland ice sheet ever observed in modern times, with a rare, nearly sheet-wide surface melt in July.
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