Climate Letter #809

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Carl Campbell
An apocalyptic view of plastic waste.  After reading this story you may start to think that the greenhouse gas buildup is actually not the biggest thing for humanity to worry about.  This is an extraordinary piece of journalism, worthy of a prize.

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A new annual Arctic Report Card has been released by NOAA.  This post includes a fine series of charts, showing many new records that were set in the past year.  One not-so-familiar item mentioned is the record low snow cover in the North American Arctic, which marks an important reduction in the Earth’s albedo over an area large enough to have a meaningful feedback effect on surface warming.
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From the Climate Reanalyzer website.  It’s worth spending a few minutes every day on this website as a way of staying on top of unusual climate events as they develop around the globe.  In today’s view of average surface air temperatures you will very quickly see that temperatures over the waters north of Svalbard, just a few hundred miles from the North Pole, enveloped in 24-hour darkness, are comparable to those of locations as far south as Oklahoma.  You can track that temperature line, which is about 32F, all the way down.  Over at the Anomaly chart, as now usual, things remain “red hot” in the Arctic region.
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The glaciers of Tibet have begun to come loose. The high country is heating up at a rate about double the global average, for a melting effect that could cause two-thirds of glaciers on the plateau to disappear by 2050.  Moreover, the potential for avalanches poses a huge risk for those living on the slopes below.
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Remarkable animation of a complete El Nino event (1997-98).  This took 30,000 computer hours to produce, showing details below the surface as well as above.  Observations of this type are leading to improvements in the early warning system.

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