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"The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s
northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less
ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported.
From October 2024 to September 2025, temperatures across the entire Arctic
region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, the US National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said, with the last 10 years
being the 10 warmest on record in the Arctic.
The Arctic is heating up as much as four times as quickly as the global
average, due to the burning of fossil fuels, and this extra heat is warping the
world’s refrigerator – a region that acts as a key climate regulator for the
rest of the planet.
The maximum extent of sea ice in 2025 was the lowest in the 47-year satellite
record, Noaa reported on in its annual Arctic report card. This is the latest
landmark in a longer trend, with the region’s oldest, thickest ice declining by
more than 95% since the 1980s as the Arctic becomes hotter and rainier.
This year was a record for precipitation in the Arctic. Much of this is not
settling as snow – the June snow cover extent over the Arctic today is half of
what it was six decades ago.
“This year was the warmest on record and had the most precipitation on record –
to see both of those things happen in one year is remarkable,” said Matthew
Langdon Druckenmiller, an Arctic scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data
Center at the University of Colorado and an editor of the Arctic report card.
“This year has really underscored what is to come.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
