Scientists have long suspected that the Arctic has been tolerating additional global warming than the rest of the whole planet. However, a recent study demonstrates that it was significantly worse than previously believed. In what it would be regarded as a breakthrough scientific finding, well the newest research declared that the Arctic has been warming up almost four times quicker than the rest of the world. 

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Arctic was tolerating more global warming than the rest of the planet
Arctic has been warming up almost four times quicker
The pace of warming was highest in the ocean during autumn and winter

As per the NPR report, the findings function a reminder that the polar areas has been undergoing speedy and catastrophic climate change.

Earlier the researchers have noted that the Arctic was assumed to heat twice as quickly as the rest of the world, the process has been therefore referred to as Arctic amplification. However, a latest research published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment on Thursday, August 11, discovered that the Arctic heats four times as quickly as it was assumed earlier. Well, the pace of warming was even up to seven times quicker in some areas of the ocean.

As per Mika Rantanen the main author, the research group had 'defined the Arctic properly' within the research by using a latitude of 66.5oN along the Arctic Circle, and had estimated trends between 1979, the time when satellite data first became accessible, and 2021. Rantanen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute has mentioned that 'The Arctic has been extra sensitive to global warming than it was earlier thought.'

In the research, they have found that based on the data used, the Arctic has been warming between 3.7 and 4.1 times quicker than the rest of the earth.

In addition to the present, the increasing pace of warming has been highest within the ocean throughout the time of autumn and winter, when ocean ice was meant to grow and send heat back into the atmosphere. Nonetheless, NASA had discovered earlier this year that the Arctic Sea's ice expansion during the last autumn and winter time of the year was at its 10th-lowest level ever recorded by satellites. 

Meanwhile, people that live far from the Arctic Circle were impacted by the speedy Arctic warming. As ocean ice melts, there seems to be a sign that weather patterns within the US and Europe were changing and several marine species that move annually between the tropics and also the Arctic. 

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