NOAA's 2023 Arctic Report Card is a scorcher 🔥 Highlights from the report, which the agency has released annually since 2006, include: 🌡️ The Arctic's hottest summer on record 🌡️ 6th-warmest year overall in the Arctic 🌡️ 6th-lowest summer minimum ice extent 🌡️ Record early snow loss 🌡️ Extreme precipitation 🌡️ Dramatically warmer-than-average Arctic seas “These changes that are happening, they’re more than the graphs and the figures that we see,” Dr. Susan Natali, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, told the New York Times. “They’re having a very severe impact on people’s health and ability to travel and ability to access subsistence resources and Indigenous ways of living.” #ArcticReportCard #NOAA #Arctic #Climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming