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.”
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