{"id":247,"date":"2018-04-04T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T10:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2018-04-05T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T09:34:50","slug":"arctic-sea-ice-will-disappear-due-to-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/arctic-sea-ice-will-disappear-due-to-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic sea ice will disappear due to global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even if humanity stops global warming in its tracks at <strong>two degrees Celsius<\/strong>, long seen as the guardrail for a climate-safe world, Arctic sea ice will still disappear in some years, scientists have warned. However, holding the line at 1.5 degrees Celsius, however, would make a huge difference.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a 2 degrees Celsius world, the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free roughly one-in-four years, whereas if warming does not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius, the odds drop to one-in-40, the researchers concluded.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>197<\/strong>-nation <strong>Paris climate pact<\/strong> enjoins the world to halt warming at \u201cwell under\u201d 2 degrees Celsius above mid-19th-century levels, and \u201cpursue efforts\u201d to cap the rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius. With one degrees of warming so far, Earth has already seen a crescendo of droughts, heat waves, and storms ramped up by rising seas.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>loss of Arctic sea ice<\/strong> is not only a <strong>consequence of global warming<\/strong>, but <strong>also an accelerant<\/strong> when millions of square kilometres of<strong> snow reflecting the Sun\u2019s radiation back into space are replaced with dark blue ocean that absorbs it instead<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recent studies have also fingered dwindling sea ice as a likely driver of topsy-turvy winter weather that has seen days when the North Pole is tens of degrees Celsius warmer than Europe and North America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Paris Treaty<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Paris Agreement<\/strong>, hailed as a landmark\u00a0<strong>international deal<\/strong>, was signed by 194 countries, including the <strong>EU<\/strong> and <strong>China<\/strong>,\u00a0at a UN meeting in the French capital in late <strong>2015<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement <strong>aims to limit the increase in global average temperatures to \u201cwell below 2\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 the level beyond which scientists say we will see the worst extremes of global warming.<\/li>\n<li>It also aims to \u201c<strong>pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels<\/strong>,\u00a0recognizing that this would <strong>significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change<\/strong>\u201d<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: The Hindu<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if humanity stops global warming in its tracks at two degrees Celsius, long seen as the guardrail for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[151,152,149,150,147,148],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-arctic-sea","tag-ecology-and-environment","tag-environment","tag-geography","tag-global-warming","tag-paris-climate-pact"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}