This year marked the Arctic's warmest summer on record, leading to unprecedented wildfires and glacier melting, posing global challenges such as elevated sea levels, according to a report released on Tuesday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) 2023 Arctic Report Card revealed that summer air temperatures in the Arctic reached their highest levels since at least 1900. The region continues to warm at double the global rate due to human-induced climate change.
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00:00 This year marked the Arctic's warmest summer on record, leading to unprecedented wildfires
00:11 and glacier melting, posing global challenges such as elevated sea levels, according to
00:15 a report released on Tuesday.
00:17 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2023 Arctic Report Card revealed that summer
00:24 air temperatures in the Arctic reached their highest level since at least 1900.
00:29 The region continues to warm at double the global rate due to human-induced climate change.
00:34 The report highlighted increased occurrences of extreme weather events with worldwide implications.
00:40 Northern Canada and the Canadian Arctic archipelago experienced warming alongside below-average
00:45 precipitation, contributing to an intense wildfire season.
00:49 Greenland lost an additional 350 trillion pounds of mass from its ice sheet, continuing
00:54 a trend of land-ice loss since 1998.
00:58 The report emphasized that Arctic warming has far-reaching consequences beyond the region,
01:03 impacting global sea levels and posing threats to coastal cities.
01:06 While Greenland's ice loss this year was below the 22-year average due to abundant
01:11 snowfall, the report noted that the heat still had adverse effects.
01:15 Summit Station, the highest point on the ice sheet, experienced melting for only the fifth
01:20 time in 34 years, approaching an all-time record for cumulative melt-day area.
01:25 The report warned of irreversible climate damage caused by Arctic overheating, affecting
01:30 North America and Eurasia.
01:32 It also documented unequivocal evidence of Arctic greening, with warmer temperatures,
01:36 increased precipitation and melting permafrost leading to the proliferation of shrubs and
01:41 trees in grassland and tundra areas.
01:44 Higher greening was observed in North American tundra, while the Eurasian Arctic showed relatively
01:48 low levels.
01:49 The Arctic's peak tundra greenness reached the third-highest level in 24 years of study,
01:54 potentially accelerating climate change by releasing stored carbon dioxide from permafrost.
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