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Did a January Hurricane Just Set off a Massive Greenland Melt Event in Winter? [View all]
[font size=3]Did a January Hurricane Just Set off a Massive Greenland Melt Event in Winter?[/font]
This freakish Winter there’s something odd and ominous afoot.
We’ve seen unprecedented above-freezing temperatures at the North Pole coincident with record low daily sea ice extents. We’ve seen global temperatures hitting new, very extreme record highs. We’ve seen climate change related storms raging across the globe — flooding both the UK and the Central US, firing off record hurricanes during January in both the Pacific and the Atlantic — even as other regions swelter under record heat and drought.
Now, it appears that Greenland is also experiencing an unprecedented melt during wintertime.
This freakish Winter there’s something odd and ominous afoot.
We’ve seen unprecedented above-freezing temperatures at the North Pole coincident with record low daily sea ice extents. We’ve seen global temperatures hitting new, very extreme record highs. We’ve seen climate change related storms raging across the globe — flooding both the UK and the Central US, firing off record hurricanes during January in both the Pacific and the Atlantic — even as other regions swelter under record heat and drought.
Now, it appears that Greenland is also experiencing an unprecedented melt during wintertime.
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