Global Science Team on Red Alert as Arctic Lands Grow Greener
University of Edinburgh via phys.org / Jan. 31, 2020

I’ll certainly keep my eyes out for this

“Red Alert”

to make its appearance in the following article!

(Which I quote in full, by the way.)

Keep your eyes peeled for that red alert.

New research techniques are being adopted by scientists tackling the most visible impact of climate change — the so-called greening of Arctic regions.

And here is the photo they supply:

If you’re still not convinced about all the greening yet, just take a trip to the Arctic regions to look for that greening. Or continue to read their Arcticle:

The latest drone and satellite technology is helping an international team of researchers to better understand how the vast, treeless regions called the tundra is becoming greener.

As Arctic summer temperatures warm, plants are responding.

…summer warming? That is SHOCKER #1!

Snow is melting earlier and plants are coming into leaf sooner in spring. Tundra vegetation is spreading into new areas and where plants were already growing, they are now growing taller.

Understanding how data captured from the air compare with observations made on the ground will help to build the clearest picture yet of how the northern regions of Europe, Asia and North America are changing as the temperature rises.

By saying “as the temperature rises” they are conflating spring and summer with “Global Warming.”

But this is, in their methodology, merely an accident, and the reader’s own fault for misunderstanding.

Now a team of 40 scientists from 36 institutions, led by two National Geographic Explorers

Who never toe the company line

have revealed that the causes of this greening process are more complex — and variable — than was previously thought.

Translation: “The science was not settled.”

Researchers from Europe and North America are finding that the Arctic greening observed from space is caused by more than just the responses of tundra plants to warming on the ground. Satellites are also capturing other changes including differences in the timing of snowmelt and the wetness of landscapes.

So: seasonality and moisture on the ground were never before factors in Global Warming data?

OK. Excellent model you used, there …

Lead author Dr. Isla Myers-Smith, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences, said: “New technologies including sensors on drones,

[so expensive]

“planes and satellites,”

[extremely expensive]

“are enabling scientists to track emerging patterns of greening found within satellite pixels that cover the size of football fields.”

Very precise and scientific.

Yet we were told that having one temperature readout per half-a-continent, like in Siberia, and in the Sahara, few in the Arctic and and none in the ocean, was sufficient to establish a Global Temperature(tm) for all the years under review.

Professor Scott Goetz of the School of Informatics,

Infomatics?

Computing and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University, says this research is vital for our understanding of global climate change.

Of course he would.

Tundra plants act as a barrier between the warming atmosphere and huge stocks of carbon stored in frozen ground.

Did the models never assume that?

Changes in vegetation alter the balance between the amount of carbon captured and its release into the atmosphere.

Duh! Duh! DUH!! DUH!!

Small variations could significantly impact efforts to keep warming below 1.5 degrees centigrade — a key target of the Paris Agreement. The study will help scientists to figure out which factors will speed up or slow down warming.

Co-lead author Dr. Jeffrey Kerby, who was a Neukom Fellow at Dartmouth College while conducting the research,

but presumably is no longer . . .

said: “Besides collecting new imagery, advances in how we process and analyse these data — even imagery that is decades old —

when the science was settled?

are revolutionising how we understand the past, present, and future of the Arctic.”

Alex Moen, Vice President of Explorer Programs at the National Geographic Society, said: “We look forward to the impact that this work will have on our collective understanding of the Arctic for generations to come.”

Does Alex Moen intend to travel through time, if he is looking forward to that?

Seems more realistic than the climate stuff he is working on.

…

Huh: No “Red Alert” in the article.

But maybe, metaphorically, there was one.

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