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RSS FeedsNunavut warmed, Siberia burned and Greenland melted - the Arctic summer that was like no other
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

16 september 2019 15:10:02

 
Nunavut warmed, Siberia burned and Greenland melted - the Arctic summer that was like no other
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


It has not been a good summer for the Arctic. Perhaps more than anywhere on Earth, the Arctic has felt most acutely the effects of climate change — evidence of which is unfolding in real time as residents and wildlife contend with a mess not of their own making.While Europeans baked under a few sweltering days in June and July, Arctic residents faced an altogether different paradigm.A changing Arctic brings problems foreign to those in the south: The inability to travel, the struggle to secure nutritious food, the arrival of new species, the loss of others, and perhaps most damaging, the potential disappearance of one’s culture.“The people in the North are the most affected from the impact of climate change,” said Mishak Allurut, a community leader in Arctic Bay, Nunavut. “Their whole livelihood revolves around the environment.Here is a look at how the Arctic and some of its people fared over the past three months while being subjected to some of the hottest weather on record.Mercury RisingParts of the Arctic felt more like Ontario cottage country this summer as the world experienced its hottest June followed by scorching temperatures in July, making it the hottest month since record keeping began in 1880.Multiple records were smashed in Alert, Nunavut, the northernmost permanent community on Earth. Temperatures hit a record 21 degrees on July 14, breaking the previous record of 20 degrees set in 1956.“This is an example of what we’re seeing across the entire planet, which are a lot of records being broken, particularly in the maximum temperatures,” said Armel Castellan, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.The heat refused to let up in Alert as the temperature hit 20.3 degrees on July 15, breaking the previous record of 15.7 degrees for that day set in 1971. The next day, July 16, reached 17.8 degrees to tie the record for that day set back in 2015.August turned out to be the warmest August o ...


 
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