Yesterday the earth was trembling with news about the latest dire news from the artic, noting that the permafrost wasn’t so perma anymore and the precipitation that was falling was rain not snow because of the rising temperatures. And the beavers with their great gnashing of teeth and wicked ponding ways were building dams all over the place changing the tundra, which was changing where the salmon were which was changing where the things that came to eat the salmon were and Please GOD make it stop!!!

Imagine a thousand panicked headlines like this one.

US study: Record highs, rain and beaver damage in Arctic

The Arctic continues to deteriorate from global warming, not setting as many records this year as in the past, but still changing so rapidly that federal scientists call it alarming in their annual Arctic report card.

The 16th straight health check for the northern polar region spotlighted the first ever rainfall at Greenland summit station, record warm temperatures between October and December 2020, and the new problem of expansion of beavers in the Arctic.

he 2020-2021 polar year—scientists study the Arctic on a yearly basis from October to September—was only the 7th warmest on record. However, October to December in 2020 set a record for the warmest autumn. (more…)