{"id":60868,"date":"2021-12-10T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60868"},"modified":"2021-12-10T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:04:34","slug":"if-we-lose-the-arctic-we-lose-the-globe-weve-lost-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60868","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf We Lose the Arctic We Lose the Globe\u201d We\u2019ve Lost the\u00a0Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinhester.live\/2021\/12\/10\/if-we-lose-the-arctic-we-lose-the-globe-weve-lost-the-arctic\/\">\u201cIf We Lose the Arctic We Lose the Globe\u201d We\u2019ve Lost the\u00a0Arctic<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<p>\u201cChanges will happen decades earlier than previously thought.\u201d<br \/>\nNow where have we heard that before?<br \/>\n\u201cMore rain than snow will fall in the Arctic and this transition will occur decades earlier than previously predicted, a new study led by the University of Manitoba (UM) and co-authored by scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at CU Boulder reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inEw7Kh4d08?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5636363636363636\" data-width=\"605\" data-height=\"341\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"node-title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/11\/30\/new-climate-study-predicting-more-rain-snow-arctic-rings-alarm-bells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Climate Study Predicting More Rain Than Snow in the Arctic \u2018Rings Alarm Bells\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are huge ramifications of these changes,\u201d said the lead researcher, \u201call of which have implications on wildlife populations and human livelihoods.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThere are huge ramifications of these changes, which we note in the paper, such as a reduction of snow cover, increased permafrost melt, more rain-on-snow events, and greater flooding events from increased river discharge, all of which have implications on wildlife populations and human livelihoods,\u201d says lead researcher Michelle McCrystall, a postdoctoral fellow in UM\u2019s Centre for Earth Observation Science in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/rainfall-in-arctic-will-soon-be-more-common-than-snowfall-decades-earlier-than-thought\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rainfall in Arctic Will Soon Be More Common Than Snowfall \u2013 Decades Earlier Than Thought<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aDpCbT15Z-w?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5636363636363636\" data-width=\"605\" data-height=\"341\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NzbmSXfAH9Q?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5636363636363636\" data-width=\"605\" data-height=\"341\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Arctic is iconic for maintaining year-round ice and snow, but in the last decade, it has begun to transition to wetlands and open ocean. Emblematic of this change, in July 2020, the last intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic fell into the sea. Since first analyzed in 1902, the Milne ice sheet already lost 43 percent of its previous mass. Canada\u2019s Ellesmere Island ice caps were also lost in the summer of 2020, as the ice deposited during the Little Ice Age (1600 to 1850) melted completely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf We Lose the Arctic We Lose the Globe\u201d We\u2019ve Lost the\u00a0Arctic \u201cChanges will happen decades earlier than previously thought.\u201d Now where have we heard that before? \u201cMore rain than snow will fall in the Arctic and this transition will occur decades earlier than previously predicted, a new study led by the University of Manitoba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[1018,12999,141,369,19308],"class_list":["post-60868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-arctic","tag-arctic-warming","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-kevin-hester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60869,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60868\/revisions\/60869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}