November 22, 2020

Warm Arctic, Cold Continents? It Sounds Counterintuitive, but Research
Suggests it's a Thing

Scientists suspect that rapid warming in the Arctic is causing more
climate extremes farther south, including bouts of severe cold and
snow in the Northeast.

By any measure, the Arctic has changed profoundly in the last 40
years, warming three times as fast as the global average, and losing
half its summer sea ice, as well as billions of tons of land-based
glacier ice.

And even though the Arctic only encompasses about 6 percent of the
Earth's surface area, the warming there has kicked off climate chain
reactions that are disrupting weather and climate patterns across the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, including most major North
American and European cities and agricultural areas. The abrupt and accelerating Arctic warming directly harms the communities,
livelihoods and traditions of the 4 million people who live in the
polar region.

<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22112020/warm-arctic-cold-continents-climate-change/>

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