As global warming from unlimited fossil fuel burning
accelerates, the Arctic is being radically transformed. This
winter saw large regions of Canada and Greenland about 10°C
(about 15-20°F) above the historical average. Temperatures in
eastern Canada in the dead of winter were a staggering 21°C
(37.8°F) above average. The extreme Arctic warming is wreaking
havoc with the polar ecosystems and is linked to the
catastrophic snowstorms that pummeled the United States. In a
summary of how global climate change is becoming observable to
people in their daily lives, NASA scientist James Hansen was
forced to redraw his global map with hot pink: The temperature
anomaly in the Arctic — the amount that current temperatures
differ from historical norms — is now so severe that NASA’s
James Hansen had to add a new color to his charts in order to
accurately depict it: Hot pink. “One sure bet is that this
decade will be the warmest in history,” Hansen writes in his
survey. (HT Climate Sight) Today, the House of Representativ