Feel free to shovel this information down the throats of those still insisting the world is burning up and that snowfall is a thing of the past (the UK Met Office, for one).
ARCTIC SEA ICE SEES EXPONENTIAL GAINS
According to official data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Arctic Sea Ice Volume is now growing exponentially.
After an admittedly low starting point, sea ice “volume” or “thickness” (which gives you a far better idea of an ice sheet’s health than the highly variable “extent”) began building at record rates during the start of the season (Sept, 2020) and has now eclipsed recent years and also muscled its way into 2004-2013 average range, in what has been described as a “historic shift.”
As visualized below, sea ice in those central Arctic regions is already touching 5 meters (16.4 feet) in thickness (the limit of the DMI chart) with two more months to run before the season’s peak in mid/late April:
Earthquake activity on the Reykjanes peninsula [Icelandic Met Office].
The previous eruptions at Reykjanes and Krýsuvík were in the years 1830 (VEI 3) and 1340 (VEI 1), respectively, and because it has been hundreds of year since each of these volcanoes last erupted what exactly happens in the lead-up is unclear; however, what is understood is that earthquake activity always increases sharply before an eruption, and can do so a good while before the first eruption happens, writes icelandgeology.net.
Moving on, Grímsvötn is Iceland’s most frequently erupting volcano, and over the past 800 years some 65 eruptions are known with some certainty.
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