2023 Arctic Report Card proves "time for action is now" on human-caused climate change, NOAA says

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  The report came out after the United Nations’ weather agency declared earlier this year that the planet had experienced its hottest three-month stretch on record over the summer, with experts drawing distinct connections to between the soaring temperatures and devastating wildfires that scorched huge areas of land across multiple continents and depleted air quality to an extent that threatened human health.

  Places within and just outside of the Arctic circle faced consistent weather extremes this year, the new report noted, as precipitation in those areas rose above long-term averages during all four seasons.

  Storms of increasing intensity and frequency, as well as unpredictable fishing conditions drastically impacting food security and business for Indigenous people in Alaska, are some prominent examples of that.

  Changes in the Arctic region directly impacted some of the extreme weather this summer across large and more southern parts of North America, with experts linking “unprecedented” polar temperature increases to the warmer spring and early snowmelt over northern Canada that laid the foundation for its worst wildfire season to date.

  If that trend continues, scientists warned of “dramatic consequences” for the planet, since the Greenland ice sheet is one of the major contributors to rising sea levels across the world.

  Another rural northern community in the remote Svalbard, Norway — the fastest-warming place on Earth — is also taking significant steps to cut emissions that are melting its surrounding glaciers.

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