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=====Research Highlight: Loss of Arctic's Reflective Sea Ice Will Advance Global Warming by 25 Years===== | |||
[https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/research-highlight-loss-arctics-reflective-sea-ice-will-advance-global-warming-25-years?fbclid=IwAR1vneetWZSaRE1pj-qCjN9a49e1StBjXYnscdfzasa0h6vgW5J4rSAY9Kc Scripps 7/22/2019] | |||
Losing the remaining Arctic sea ice and its ability to reflect incoming solar energy back to space would be equivalent to adding one trillion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere, on top of the 2.4 trillion tons emitted since the Industrial Age, according to current and former researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. | |||
At current rates, this roughly equates to 25 years of global CO2 emissions. It would consequently speed up the arrival of a global threshold of warming of 2ºC beyond temperatures the world experienced before the Industrial Revolution. Scientists and analysts, including the authors of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report released in October 2018, have stated that the planet runs the risk of catastrophic damage ranging from more intense heat waves and coastal flooding to extinction of terrestrial species and threats to food supply if that threshold is passed. | |||
=====What does ‘shrubification’ mean for the Arctic?===== | =====What does ‘shrubification’ mean for the Arctic?===== | ||
[https://www.arctictoday.com/shrubification-mean-arctic/ ArticToday 3/06/2018] | [https://www.arctictoday.com/shrubification-mean-arctic/ ArticToday 3/06/2018] | ||
