Late June 2014: Arctic in Hot Water as Sea Ice Thins and Tundra Fires Erupt

By Garry Rogers @Garry_Rogers

Huge tundra fire smoke plumes just to the right of the center.

“Atmospheric warming due to human-caused climate change. It’s the general measure we’ve used to track a devastating and ongoing heat amplification due to a terrible greenhouse gas emission. But if we were to look for where the greatest amount of that heat has accumulated, it would be in the world’s oceans. For from its air-contacting surface to its depths thousands of meters below, the World Ocean has captured 93.4% of the total heat forcing humans have already unleashed. The remainder is almost evenly divided between the atmosphere, the continents, and the ice.”

Source: robertscribbler.wordpress.com

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