The annual @NOAA State of the #climate report is just out, based on 2021 data. And it's gut-wrenching.
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Everything is going the wrong way, rapidly. Greenhouse gas emissions are soaring...
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2/ Despite what should have been a cooling caused by the Pacific La Nina event, 2021 was a hot one -- one of the 6 hottest ever recorded.
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3/ The oceans in 2021 hit record heat levels, especially near the Poles. Hotter seas can't produce winter ice, so the oceanic system is unable to compensate for ice cap summer melting.
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4/ The diminished amounts of sea ice forming in the #Arctic leading into 2021 winter was new, thin stuff -- prone to instability and quick melting.
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5/ Thanks to the warming of air and seas, coupled with less polar sea ice formation in winters, the amount of Earth's water stored in glaciers and giant ice sheets is plummeting, pouring into rising seas. Sea levels hit records in 2021.
#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis
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