According to a recent study, the Arctic is melting four times more quickly as the planet is warming.The study was unable to identify other explanations but hypothesised that the causes may be related to “sea ice and water-vapour feedbacks” in addition to modifications in how the heat from the atmosphere and ocean moves into the Arctic.
Sadly, all but four of the 39 climate models completely ignored the fact that the rate of Arctic temperature decline has accelerated over the past 50 years.
According to Petr Chylek, a physicist and climate researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the study’s principal author, “thirty years is thought to be the least to depict climate change.”The time gap was shortened to 21 years.
We saw two clear leaps at that shorter time scale—the first in 1986 and the second in 1999—contrary to earlier studies that found the Arctic amplification index increases gradually.
Sea levels increase as a result of the Greenland ice sheet melting in the Arctic, which has a direct influence on coastal towns and can create natural disasters throughout the world.
