🚨Alert!🚨 As anticipated last week the forecast
#Greenland
melt event has occurred – just look at that spike! Unusually warm temperatures causing significant melt and
#Arctic
change means global risks for everyone. Find out more -
#ClimateChange
WARNING. NEXT WEEK. A significant heatwave is expected throughout
#Canada
next week bringing temperatures 10+°C above normal. This
#heatwave
is notable for several reasons—notably that it is occurring so early in the season and during a year in which we are expecting
#ElNino
. 1/
Why cold weather doesn’t mean climate change is fake:
‘A record-breaking cold snap is relentlessly descending on parts of the U.S. this month. It spawned from a split polar vortex that sent cold,
#Arctic
air across the continent.
1. NEWS JUST IN! The
#Arctic
IS warming faster than we thought. In fact FOUR times as fast as the global average. A report published today in
@Nature
, states that bet' 1979 and 2021, the Arctic has warmed an average of 4x times the global average... MORE
🚨 Arctic Alarm 🚨 Early warning of the 1st heatwave forecast for
#Greenland
around Jun 1. Temps could reach +15°C (+59°F) above average in some regions of the ice sheet. Possibly signalling the start of the 2023
#Arctic
melt season or a repeat of the extreme heatwave resulting…
Yesterday she took the train here while more delegates than ever flew in by private jet - and last night she camped in -15
Climate hero
@GretaThunberg
- thanks for camping with us ⛺️💙❄️🥶
The 2023 Arctic sea ice minimum has been declared as the 6th lowest. We've added another stripe to our
#ArcticSeaIceStripes
. Arctic snow and ice help stabilise the climate—without them, warming could worsen by 25-40%. With current emissions, we could lose the summer sea ice by…
🚨ARCTIC ALARM🚨
2023 is off to an especially fiery start for
#Svalbard
and its surrounding waters 🔥
By the end of January, the sea ice extent in the
#Arctic
reached its second-lowest extent in the satellite era or records.
Why should YOU care?
image: Karsten Haustein
@metoffice
says the added impacts of
#climatechange
means “we are likely to see unprecedented heatwaves during the next El Niño,” expected later this year. We’ll be tracking
#ElNino
's impacts on the Arctic Risk Platform. 2/2
#ClimateCrisis
"Why is the Arctic sea ice declining so significantly? Research shows a strong and direct correlation with CO2 emissions."
Latest blog by Prof. Julienne Stroeve
@JulienneStroeve
, Dr. Jeremy Wilkinson
@BAS_News
& Prof. Gail Whiteman
@GenerationCO2
🔔 ‼️ CLIMATE EMERGENCY - The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average.
What happens in the
#Arctic
doesn’t stay in the Arctic. Know the risks.
Arctic Change = Global Risks.
➡️
#ClimateChange
#FourTimesFaster
#ArcticRisk
🚨🚨Arctic Alarm 🚨 🚨 Global sea ice is at lowest levels since at least satellite data began. Combined data shows anomalies in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Find out why sea ice is so important for our planet ➡️
📷
@ZLabe
1/2
🚨 ARCTIC ALERT 🚨
In what would be the start to a series of anomalous temperature spikes in the autumnal shoulder season, the temperature at Greenland's highest point was above freezing on Sept 3--the first time ever recorded in September. 1/
🐻❄️ INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY
These bears are struggeling to survive with the Arctic warming 4x faster than the rest of the world. Let's celebrate them today but also remember to protect their habitat. Visit
@PolarBears
for ways to help! 🙌🏻
#InternationalPolarBearDay
#Arctic
Join us and
@rainnwilson
in bringing attention to the melting issue. We need world leaders to take action at
@COP27P
Rapid
#Arctic
warming brings huge global risks. Yet this problem can’t seem to make a name for itself, so we’ll make a name for it…
Go to link in bio ⬆️
Join us LIVE tomorrow over on Instagram (arctic.basecamp)Tues 10 Aug at 10.45am BST where we will be talking to
#TEAMUMIAQ
- an all female sailing expedition team sailing from
#Iceland
to
#Greenland
. Follow their journey on
@TeamUmiaq
Thank you so much to our amazing speakers for the sobering, insightful, and optimistic discussions at the Earth Commission Reception tonight- footage available shortly!
#ArcticCalling
#WEF19
@PIK_Climate
Africa is so hugely underreported when it comes to the climate crisis (as well as everything else...). If you have a platform - help amplify the voices and stories from Africa.
Africa has a key role in the fight for climate justice.
Please acknowledge and share their perspective.
🚨CLIMATE ALERT🚨
We now know that much of
#Greenland
's contribution to global
#sealevelrise
is both locked in **AND** significantly greater than models have predicted. Breaking work by our own Science Team, a 🧵1/
Wonderful interview with Ukraine’s Leading climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska 🇺🇦
We were honored to have her camping with us in
#Davos
and speaking at our high-level panel on ‘Science not Spin’ during
#wef22
Read it here ➡️
#fossifuels
#ukrainewar
Ever seen a Narwhal talk with a Polar Bear?
We have now… We’d better listen to what they have to say!
@rainnwilson
and Chuck Tatham have joined us to tell you about our brand new “Arctic Sea Ice Meltometer” - what does it look like if Arctic sea ice came to you? Head to…
We know we can’t get delegates to
#Greenland
so we brought Greenland to the COP. The Arctic is vital to life as we know it and we need everyone to protect it. Follow us to find out more about why we brought an iceberg to COP26.
#ArcticMelt
#ArcticAlarm
#Iceberg
#COP26
#Portugal
has accomplished an impressive feat: it ran fully on renewable energy for six consecutive days! For almost four days, its production of renewable energy was bigger than its consumption, enabling it to export the excess to Spain.
We are a team of
#Arctic
experts and scientists. We know that Arctic change is at a critical juncture, and hard choices need to be made.
Here are 10 things we want world leaders to know about the
#Arctic
#ArcticCalling
#ActOnClimate
and that’s why having Vanessa in
#Davos
was so important. In the 21st century, this cannot happen. The world needs to know how this occurred and what processes the
@AP
will change to ensure this never happens again.
Photos 1,2,4,5 by
@henryiddon
Photo 3 by
@GenerationCO2
We're utterly thrilled to announce Thursday's event in camp, where we will be joined by multi-platinum selling global superstar
@elliegoulding
climate heroes
@GretaThunberg
&
@CFigueres
&more, for a discussion on the key to the planet's future: Bending the emissions curve 📉
“This is a very special
#winter
compared to what we had 20 years ago. If someone twenty years ago said that all the northern coast of Svalbard would be ice-free mid-winter in 2023, nobody would believe it...it’s becoming the new normal." --Jon Aars,
@NorskPolar
The Arctic Basecamp team are shocked and saddened to hear the news about our friend and colleague, Professor Konrad Steffen, who passed away on Saturday whilst on fieldwork in Greenland. Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this heartbreaking time.
@WSL_research
We're utterly thrilled to announce Thursday's event in camp, where we will be joined by multi-platinum selling global superstar
@elliegoulding
climate heroes
@GretaThunberg
&
@CFigueres
&more, for a discussion on the key to the planet's future: Bending the emissions curve 📉
The
#Arctic
is on the front line of climate change, and is sending a huge warning to the rest of the world. It's time for world leaders to act. That's why, for the past 2 years, we've brought our basecamp to Davos. Join us.
🚨🚨 ANTARCTICA IN CRISIS?
#Summer
is taking hold in the southern hemisphere. While the decline in Antarctic sea ice is always steep this time of year, it has been unusually so this year. By late December, Antarctic sea ice extent stood at the lowest in 45y of satellite data. 1/
Meet Jeremy, one of the Basecamp scientists, with an ice core sample from Antarctica that is almost 1,000 years old. Just some of the incredible things you'll be able to see in the Arctic basecamp in
@Davos
this week
#ArcticMatters
The Earth’s largest remaining
#tropical
ice caps are located in the
#Peru
Andes Mountain. In the last 40 years Quelccaya
#glacier
has halved in size, but it might soon disappear leading to water scarcity for Indigenous communities.
Visit
Footage:
@NASA
LOOK . AT . THIS
Does this scare you? Perhaps, the
#Arctic
seems far away, but this impacts YOU. Wherever you are. Check out to learn why.
As a whole, the
#Arctic
is warming 4x faster than the rest of the planet, but this warming isn’t uniform. 🧵1/
Greenland, Day 6:
@rainnwilson
interviewed Haldor Thorgeirsson about behind the scenes negotiations at COP15 and then Icelandic TV star
@saevarhb
. A great end to an informative trip. Welcome to our board
@rainnwilson
.
#ArcticMatters
2...which has generally not been captured in model datasets, usually showing only 2-3x warming. This rate, reaching 7x faster in some regions in the Barents region and well known to be a result of Arctic amplification, has been picked up through several observational datasets.
🚨 The extreme
#heatwave
that has gripped
#Canada
for the past 2wk is accelerating, driving temps +18°C above avg May highs. Heat events are among the deadliest disasters. A major concern is 🔥
#wildfires
, which have already led to more than 29k evacuations in
#Alberta
alone. 1/2
3. Critically, the heightened pattern of the last 43yrs indicates that models traditionally used to calculate climate around the world are unable to account for the full effects of Arctic amplification and underestimate the changes happening in this critical part of the world.
Today, female scientists, researchers & campaigners in the Arctic have a huge impact in the world of climate change. But on
#InternationalWomensDay
, we want to celebrate those that broke the ‘ice ceiling’. Here’s a brief history of women in polar research…
#WomenInScience
It's official:
#Summer
2022 was the hottest since
#UK
records began 364 years ago🌶️🌶️🌶️
Also in 1659: the '÷' symbol first appeared in print and the 'arms' of Saturn were determined to be rings.
But what does this have to do with the
#Arctic
? What does it mean for our future? 🧵
Twitter friends, We’ve reached 800 followers, and we have a favour to ask... can you help us reach 1k? Please can you share a little tweet about us, telling your network about what we’re doing? Or, simply hit the RT on this lovely graphic....
#ArcticCalling
#ArcticMatters
🚨Arctic Alarm🚨 We have seen an increase in emissions from
#Arctic
fires over recent days with monitoring systems also identifying fires in the Arctic Circle in Sakha Republic. Increasing temperatures had drawn our attention to a potential spike and this has proven correct. The…
📢 Calling all
#ClimateAction
warriors📢 To inspire climate action and communicate global impacts of
#Arctic
change, we created the Arctic Risk Platform. Help us make it more useful to your needs by filling out this 10-minute survey: - thank you!
The effects of the heating Arctic feed into the global symphony of planetary systems. To understand why the Arctic is so influential in global risk, check out 🔥
#climatecrisis
#climatealarm
We should be in
#Davos
but we are just as pleased to announce we will be part of the media programme at the
@wef
#DavosAgenda
week and streaming our High Level Panel and Arctic Basecamp Science Jam on 27.01.21. Hosted by
@rainnwilson
and
@ParisaFH
#MECA
On
#IWD21
we wanted to celebrate the amazing women we have worked with on our mission to ‘speak science to power’ and encourage bold action on climate change. The list just kept getting longer – over 100 and counting. Here is our ‘roll of honour’ and we thank you.
#ArcticAlarm
🔥ARCTIC ALARM🔥
@UN
's
@antonioguterres
is again not mincing words when speaking about the 'torrent of trouble' facing a billion people that could yield 'a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale' w/ UN Security Council this week. What's the
#arctic
link? 1/
🔄 We’re caught in a loop – a
#permafrost
feedback loop, to be more specific.
The
#Arctic
’s permanently frozen ground, known as permafrost, is among the world’s largest carbon storehouses, holding around 1.4 trillion tonnes of
#greenhousegas
according to
@WoodwellClimate
. 🧵
🚨
#Arctic
Alarm 🚨
#Iceland
is breaking temperature records with temperatures reaching 27.9°C. The 'land of Fire and Ice' is experiencing rapid glacier loss & ecological changes are reminders of the impact of Arctic warming. Find out more:
#ClimateChange
🚨🔥
#Greenland
is again on track for a major melt, just days after the last. Such back-to-back events have significant implications for the snowpack to hold onto the melt water as well as for the melt season overall. Why? Check out
#ClimateCrisis
#Arctic
What does
#1
.5°C mean for the Arctic? At 1.5°C of
#GlobalWarming
the Arctics annual mean surface temperature will be twice that of the global average, with an increased likelihood of a sea ice-free summer mid-century.
What happens in the
#Arctic
does not stay in the Arctic.
@WMO
The Arctic is warming 3x faster than anywhere on
#Earth
. With the soil warming at an alarming rate, permafrost thaw is accelerated. The thawing soil is expected to release around 18m tonnes of
#CO2
for every 1C of warming into the future (
@IPCC_CH
, 2021).
❄️ We're excited to announce the launch of our new
#Meltometer
, a powerful tool to measure the impact of businesses and greenhouse gases on Arctic sea ice melt. Together, let's take a step towards a more sustainable future.
#ArcticMatters
#ClimateAction
Ever heard of Atlantification?
It is the transformation of the Arctic Ocean from colder, fresher, and ice-capped to warmer, saltier, and increasingly ice-free.
Visit
HAPPENING NOW! Our founder
@GenerationCO2
Professor Gail Whiteman speaking in the Congress Hall at
#Davos
#WEF20
We are watching live from our Basecamp tent.
We are a team of
#Arctic
experts and scientists. We know that Arctic change is at a critical juncture, and hard choices need to be made.
So for the last 3 years we brought the Arctic to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos.
#ArcticCalling
#ActOnClimate
The metaverse can take us to the
#Arctic
to learn about the global impacts of climate change. Join
@generationCO2
&
@rainnwilson
in the Climate Tipping Points Hub on the Radio Davos video podcast. Watch 👉 .
#WEF24
🔥Update.
#Canada
is still currently on track to have its most severe
#wildfire
season ever recorded, with surging air pollution in Quebec.
#Montreal
now has the world's worst air quality, raising concerns for public health. More info:
Millions of Canadian and U.S. residents are experiencing some of the worst air quality in memory. The Arctic has an important role to play in making wildfires worse. Do you want to find out how bad wildfire smoke is in your area and why?
Visit
Wonderful that our founder
@GenerationCO2
met the incredible David Attenborough tonight, and even better he sent his greetings to Basecamp ❄️💙
#ArcticCalling
#Wef19
New research led by
@PentlandCentre
Dr Dmitry Yumashev,
@vocal_modeller
shows melting permafrost in the
#Arctic
will have a £70tn impact on the global economy.
Meaning the +1.5C target, as outlined in the Paris Agreement, is as economically attractive as +2C
CC
@CFigueres