Today's climate change snapshot: Warmer weather destroying Arctic treasures

[Newsjock]

Source: Nunatsiaq News (Iqaluit)

The Arctic's wonders may melt, sink or be blown away before the world has a chance to appreciate them.

Rising temperatures, thawing glaciers, higher sea levels, soggy permafrost and erosion are all eating away at the Arctic's most valuable sites, says a United Nations report on climate change's impact on World Heritage Sites.

Over the past 100 years, the head of the huge glacier in Ilulissat, Greenland has retreated more than 30 kilometres from its former location on the fiord - a movement only expected to intensify in the future as Greenland's temperatures rise.

And Yukon's Qikiqtaruk or Herschel Island, a former whaling outpost, is collapsing into the Beaufort Sea. As the island's shoreline retreats under high winds and seas, and permafrost gives way, and archeological sites, historic houses and graveyards disappear.

Read more: http://nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavut/70420_48.html

[Bobbieo]

1. As the California Current carries the melting Arctic ice to the south

California temperatures are cooling down. The Westeries are carrying those cooler temps across the nation. While the temps in Yuma, AZ should be near the 100 degree mark, my back patio temps register 69 degrees, right now. Most unusual!!!